School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGTo 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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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Our passion is our strength.
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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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It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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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 just open my mouth and out it comes.
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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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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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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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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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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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