I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI’m always a work in progress.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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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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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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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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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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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.
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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].”
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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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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Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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