Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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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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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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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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I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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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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The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.
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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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Our passion is our strength.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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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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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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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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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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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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I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.
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It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.
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The musical is amazing. i mean,i don't throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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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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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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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
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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.