Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.
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I like music a lot.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
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With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.
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The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that's very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.
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I like to keep my girlish figure.
