Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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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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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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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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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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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 thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
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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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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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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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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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