One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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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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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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I just plug in and let go.
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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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 identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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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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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Our passion is our strength.
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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