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
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGSongs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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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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It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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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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It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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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.
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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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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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