I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
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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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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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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 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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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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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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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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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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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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