It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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 don’t get nothing and like it.
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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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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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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 don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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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
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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