I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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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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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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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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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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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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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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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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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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