We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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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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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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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 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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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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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 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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