Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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.
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The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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I just plug in and let go.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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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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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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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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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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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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