Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGShe smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Our passion is our strength.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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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 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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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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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 know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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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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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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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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