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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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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 don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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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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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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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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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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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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I just plug in and let go.
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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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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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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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