With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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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 never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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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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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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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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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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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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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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