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 ARMSTRONGWhat 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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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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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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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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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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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.
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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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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 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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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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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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What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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