Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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You don't get nothing and like it.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
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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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Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.
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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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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 things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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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.
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We put the fun back into dysfunctional.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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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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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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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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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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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.