Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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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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I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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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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Our passion is our strength.
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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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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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If 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.
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