It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGNobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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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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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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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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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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