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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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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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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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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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I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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I just plug in and let go.
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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