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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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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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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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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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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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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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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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