No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGOne thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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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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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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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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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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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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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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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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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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It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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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.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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