I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWhat kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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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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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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I 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.
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