If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG
It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
![Billie Joe Armstrong Quote - I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/i-dont-care-what-you-do-i-just-dont-want-to-be-a-m.jpg)
![Billie Joe Armstrong Quote - We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/we-stayed-very-close-to-each-other-with-leek-kirk-.jpg)
![Billie Joe Armstrong Quote - As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/as-agent-asked-if-i-wanted-to-be-represented-and-i.jpg)
![Billie Joe Armstrong Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/the-record-american-idiot-felt-special-to-us-when-.jpg)
