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 ARMSTRONGMusic – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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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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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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To 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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As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
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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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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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