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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIt’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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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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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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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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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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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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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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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