The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGControversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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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 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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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I just plug in and let go.
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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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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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