Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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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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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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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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 sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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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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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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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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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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