I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWith my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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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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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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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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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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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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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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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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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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I 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 working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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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 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.
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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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