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!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWhen we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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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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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 just plug in and let go.
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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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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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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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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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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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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