When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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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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I’m always a work in progress.
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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