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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Embodies Lifestyle Punk
To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Culture Records Rocks
You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Chicken Ice Cream Want Wings
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Perfect Practice School
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Athlete Sports Believe
You don’t get nothing and like it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Get Like Nothing
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Playing Saws Swimming
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Names Rocks Thinking
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Bigger Boring Risk
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anything Better Making Mistakes
I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Majority Sick Thinking
We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fun Kids Together
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Broadway Directors Hbo Writer
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Forward Moving
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Green People Rocks
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fun Ipod Kids

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