That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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I’m always a work in progress.
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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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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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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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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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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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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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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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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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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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