There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGSome times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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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 bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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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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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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I just plug in and let go.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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