Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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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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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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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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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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Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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The 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.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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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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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
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