My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWhen all else fails…be a rockstar
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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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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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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 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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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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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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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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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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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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