There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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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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 thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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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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Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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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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That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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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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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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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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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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Our passion is our strength.
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