I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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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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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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I 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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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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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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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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