The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at 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 threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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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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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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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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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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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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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.
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Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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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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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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The musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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