I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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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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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!”
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I just plug in and let go.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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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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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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