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That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.
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I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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We put the fun back into dysfunctional.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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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 first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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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?
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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I 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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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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Our passion is our strength.
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We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.
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I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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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.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day