We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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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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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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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.
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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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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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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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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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.
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