A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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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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 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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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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The 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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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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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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That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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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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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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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 just open my mouth and out it comes.
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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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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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