I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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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 had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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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 can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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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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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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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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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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