Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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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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I just plug in and let go.
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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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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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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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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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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