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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI’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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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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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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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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.
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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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That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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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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I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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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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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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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.
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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.
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