Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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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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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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I like to keep my girlish figure.
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I wrote a song called "Green Day" because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock 'n' roll bad together. I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I'm a pretty klutzy parent.
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I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.
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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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Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.
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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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A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
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The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He's having a mid-life moment, and it's a small moment, really. I think that the character actually really loves where he's at, in his life. He's just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.
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Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.
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You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin.