I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIf 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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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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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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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 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.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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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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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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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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