If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIf you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThat’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGTo do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMy job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGOne thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGHopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMy goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou don’t get nothing and like it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG