No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIf I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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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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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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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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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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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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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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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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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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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 heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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