Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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I’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.
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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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I just plug in and let go.
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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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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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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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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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