Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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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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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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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 the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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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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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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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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