My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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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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I like to keep my girlish figure
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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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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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Our passion is our strength.
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I just plug in and let go.
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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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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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