It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
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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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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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.
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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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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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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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It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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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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If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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Our passion is our strength.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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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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