No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGPunk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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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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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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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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I’m always a work in progress.
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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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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.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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