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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe are not afraid to be entertainers.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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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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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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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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When 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.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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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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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.
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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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