Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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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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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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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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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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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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 sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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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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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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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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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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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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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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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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Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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