I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI hate celebrities. I really hate them.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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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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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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The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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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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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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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 played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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