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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMy job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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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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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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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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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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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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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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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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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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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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