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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Inward Ivory Tower Towers
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Heart Song Writing
I just plug in and let go.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Funny Inspiring Letting
I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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Care Hippie Want
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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Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
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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Album Done Ordinary World
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

People Son Want
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Actors Importance Language Script
I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Careers Ideas Possibly
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Drug People Song
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acoustics Finesse Guitar
Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Air Blood Veins
Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Lying Nowhere Population
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anything Better Making Mistakes
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Pushing Songwriter
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Country Differences Thinking

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

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