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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.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Bags Rocks Want
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Emptiness Looks Rage
A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

People Shut Up Waiting
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Day One People Up Wake
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Nuts Ordinary Party World
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Figure Life Love Sense
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band Hate Stupid
I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Aggravation Art School
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Attack Instruments Let
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Bigger Boring Risk
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band Rocks Roll Synching
There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Able Honesty Kids
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 wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Dope Smoking Song
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Punk Rocks Thinking
If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ass Green Paint Soon Sure

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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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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