The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWhat 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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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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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 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 sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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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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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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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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