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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acoustics Finesse Guitar
A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Men Punk Trash
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Athlete Brother Way
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Emptiness Looks Rage
Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Kids People Reality
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Playing Saws Swimming
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Birthday Memories Older Thinking
That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Expectations Impact Thinking
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Forward Moving
Our passion is our strength.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Passion Strength
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Drunk Someone Thinking Time
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Jobs Rocks Stars
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Facts Fine Misunderstood
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!”
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Giving Ordinary Scripts World
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Everybody Joke Thought
Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.

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