American - Musician | February 17, 1972 -
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
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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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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.
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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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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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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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I love storytelling.
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And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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