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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.

Billie Joe Armstrong

We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band Dream Years
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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Empathy People Thinking
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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Drug People Song
Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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Embodies Lifestyle Punk
It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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Different Parent Unique
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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Autumn Wind Winter
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Lifestyle Punk Sound
I just plug in and let go.
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Funny Inspiring Letting
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Kids People Reality
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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Fighting Kids Sleep
A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Men Punk Trash
I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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Body Country Lice
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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Men Stupid Thinking
I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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Dope Smoking Song
When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Else Failing Fails Rockstar
I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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Balance Musician Parent
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rain Run Running
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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Mainstream Punk Rocks
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anything Better Making Mistakes
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Facts Fine Misunderstood
Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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Beautiful Life Pretty
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Happiness Happy Humans Really
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Records Rocks Technology
We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Actors Importance Language Script
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 ARMSTRONG

Band Hate Stupid
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Bigger Boring Risk

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