We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGTo do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I’m always a work in progress.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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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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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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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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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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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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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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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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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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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.
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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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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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I just plug in and let go.
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