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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThat’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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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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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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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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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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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 can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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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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