I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGSome times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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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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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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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 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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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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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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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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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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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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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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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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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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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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I just plug in and let go.
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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 first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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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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I like to keep my girlish figure
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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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