And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.
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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
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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.
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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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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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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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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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