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Billie Joe Armstrong

A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
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Men Punk Trash
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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Men Stupid Thinking
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Sake Want Writing
She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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Autumn Wind Winter
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
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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Fighting Kids Sleep
I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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Great Opportunity Opportunity
Our passion is our strength.
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Passion Strength
I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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People Song Writing
Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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Punk Something Stupid Trying
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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Balance Musician Parent
Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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Kids People Reality
I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Comes Mouths Open
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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Green People Rocks
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Celebrities Hate People
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Good Guy Looking Taste
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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Heart Song Writing
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
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
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Depend Loser Nothing
The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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Ordinary Rocks Special World
It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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Done Havens Regret
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Day Green Rules
I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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Brands Eyeliner Heard
I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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Drug People Song

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