As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWhat kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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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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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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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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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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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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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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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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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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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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