I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMy brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIf you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMoshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThey have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIf 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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMadisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGJust because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMusic – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG