No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMoshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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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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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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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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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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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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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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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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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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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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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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