I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWhen 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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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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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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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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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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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Our passion is our strength.
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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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 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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