I 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 working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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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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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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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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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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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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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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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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