School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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 just plug in and let go.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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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 brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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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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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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