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.
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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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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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 think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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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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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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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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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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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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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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