We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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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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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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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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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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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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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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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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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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