The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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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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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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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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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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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 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.
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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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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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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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As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
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