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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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Our passion is our strength.
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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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 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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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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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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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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