I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI just open my mouth and out it comes.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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 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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I’m always a work in progress.
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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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.
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The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.
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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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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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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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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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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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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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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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