My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGPretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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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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I like to keep my girlish figure
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The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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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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When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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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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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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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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When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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