I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGPunk 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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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 was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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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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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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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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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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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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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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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 people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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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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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.
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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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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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