Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
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I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)
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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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I'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
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In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
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This never gets old, and when it does, I'll go do a movie. I like the fact that I can get into other projects because everything feels fresh when I come back to music.
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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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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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.
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If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.
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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!