Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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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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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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.
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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.
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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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I like to keep my girlish figure
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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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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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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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 hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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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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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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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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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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