I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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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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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.
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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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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.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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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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The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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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.
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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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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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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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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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When 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].”
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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