As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMy job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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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.
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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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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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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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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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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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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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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.
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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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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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