My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGTo me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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I’m always a work in progress.
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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Our passion is our strength.
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I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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