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Billie Joe Armstrong

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 ARMSTRONG

Album Done Ordinary World
I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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Body Country Lice
I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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Great Opportunity Opportunity
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Good Guy Looking Taste
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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People Son Want
Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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Broken Heart Glasses Together
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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Acoustics Finesse Guitar
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Lifestyle Punk Sound
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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Mainstream Punk Rocks
I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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Class Middle People Thinking
To 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.
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Anything Heart Mistake Successful
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
The musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Humble Mean Talking
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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Air Blood Veins
We 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.
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Broadway Directors Hbo Writer

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