I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGSet lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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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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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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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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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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A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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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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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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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 musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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I’m always a work in progress.
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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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