Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMadisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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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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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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The musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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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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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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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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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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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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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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