I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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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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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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If 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 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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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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I 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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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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