We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGAnd you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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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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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.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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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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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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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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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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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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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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