We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIf Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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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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It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
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I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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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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We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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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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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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