We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIt’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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 think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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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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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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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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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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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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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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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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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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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 just plug in and let go.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Songs 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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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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