Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWhen we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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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’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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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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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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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.
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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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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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