For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWhen someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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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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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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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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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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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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I just plug in and let go.
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I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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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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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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