The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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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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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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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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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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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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I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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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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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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