Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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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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That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.
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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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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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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.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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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 thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!'
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To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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We put the fun back into dysfunctional.
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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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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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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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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When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.