I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMy wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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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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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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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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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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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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