I like to keep my girlish figure
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIt’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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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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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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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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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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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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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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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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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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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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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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