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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Mistake Risk Successful
I’m always a work in progress.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Always Progress Work
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acoustics Finesse Guitar
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band Dream Years
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Jobs Rocks Stars
It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Done Havens Regret
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Half Realized Song
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anything Heart Mistake Successful
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].”
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ordinary World Radio Song
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Balance Musician Parent
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Emptiness Looks Rage
I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Inward Ivory Tower Towers
When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Else Failing Fails Rockstar
Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Kids People Reality
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 ARMSTRONG

Broadway Directors Hbo Writer
It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Different Parent Unique

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