I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGOne 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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I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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I just plug in and let go.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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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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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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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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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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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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It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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