I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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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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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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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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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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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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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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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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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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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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