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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Emotional Gutters Song
You don’t get nothing and like it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Get Like Nothing
I’m always a work in progress.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Always Progress Work
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Sail Wind
Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Just Missionary Position
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 ARMSTRONG

Hollywood Independent Spirit
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Emptiness Looks Rage
I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Consumers Needs
I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Aggravation Art School
The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ordinary Rocks Special World
It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Different Parent Unique
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Half Realized Song
The musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Humble Mean Talking
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Depend Loser Nothing
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?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Majority Sick Thinking
Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Air Blood Veins

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

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