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
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGAs 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!”
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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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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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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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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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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To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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