I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIf 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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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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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.
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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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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.
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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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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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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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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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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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