I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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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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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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Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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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 want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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