I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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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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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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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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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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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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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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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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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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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