Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.
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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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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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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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I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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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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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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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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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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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 not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!
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I hate celebrities. I really hate 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?
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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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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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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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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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And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.