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Billie Joe Armstrong

Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Emotional Gutters Song
I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Drug People Song
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Right Something Voicing
We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Actors Importance Language Script
I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Consumers Needs
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band Dream Years
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Men Stupid Thinking
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Matter Parent Sacrifice
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Punk Rocks Thinking
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Day One People Up Wake
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acoustics Finesse Guitar
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].”
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ordinary World Radio Song
When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Drunk Someone Thinking Time
That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Expectations Impact Thinking
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Clubs Down Mentally Rocks
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Forward Moving

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