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 ARMSTRONGI just open my mouth and out it comes.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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I’m always a work in progress.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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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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The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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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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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 just plug in and let go.
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