To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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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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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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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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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 just open my mouth and out it comes.
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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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I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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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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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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