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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.

Billie Joe Armstrong

My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Jobs Rocks Stars
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Care Hippie Want
I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Prozac Used Working
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Punk Rocks Thinking
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Perfect Practice School
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Englishmen Impersonating Sound
I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Hollywood Independent Spirit
My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fun Guy Wife
Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Couple Precious Script Shooting
Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Dangerous Fun Rocks Roll
I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Country Differences Thinking
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Good Guy Looking Taste
Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Darkness Individuals Minorities Place
I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Inward Ivory Tower Towers
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Records Rocks Technology

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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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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