I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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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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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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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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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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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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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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Our passion is our strength.
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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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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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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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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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I just plug in and let go.
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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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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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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 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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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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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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