Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGControversy 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.
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I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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Our passion is our strength.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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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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We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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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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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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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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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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To 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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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