Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
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We put the fun back into dysfunctional.
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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 thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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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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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I'm sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."
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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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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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I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.
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It's fun until someone gets hurt...then it's hilarious.
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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
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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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I'm always a work in progress.
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I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else.
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We've been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot... we've done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody ... do everything you f - -n' believe in, because this is what it's all about.
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A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
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My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it.