Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGHopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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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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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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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.
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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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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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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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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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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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When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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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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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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