Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGPeople are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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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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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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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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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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Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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