We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI just open my mouth and out it comes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe darkness is coming now god dammit!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGJust because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGPunk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMusic to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe 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 ARMSTRONGYou can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG