Billie Joe Armstrong has thrown down against those who say that "rock is dead." During a recent interview with Rolling Stone he called the practice "absurd" and said rock and roll is a life force unto itself.
"[That is] such a broad-stroke, absurd thing to say about any genre of music." He continued, "It's like saying, 'Air is dead' or 'Water is dead.' It makes no sense to me why people say things like that."
He also commented on the current state of U.S. politics.
"This is the most chaos I've ever seen in an election. It's just so freaky. I don't want to add more of the outrage or anger. I'd just try to reflect it. This is the first time that this election has preyed on fear and anger. And I think with both of those, we're sort of in this fight-or-flight mode. Everybody's freaked out."
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