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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Listen Night Nocturnal Record Sleep
I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Class Middle People Thinking
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anyone Going Punk Realize Think
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Sake Want Writing
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acoustics Finesse Guitar
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Facts Fine Misunderstood
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Mainstream Punk Rocks
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!)
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Autumn Wind Winter
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Men Stupid Thinking
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Day Green Rules
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Happiness Happy Humans Really
Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Lying Nowhere Population
That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Musicians Rock Music Rocks
A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Men Punk Trash
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

People Son Want
When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Empathy People Thinking

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