My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI like to keep my girlish figure
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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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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I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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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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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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