I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI’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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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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.
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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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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’m always a work in progress.
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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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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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