Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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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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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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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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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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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 got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
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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 thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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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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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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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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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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I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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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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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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It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.
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We put the fun back into dysfunctional.
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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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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'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.
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It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.
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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.