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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGTo me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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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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Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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I just plug in and let go.
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The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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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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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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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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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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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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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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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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