I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGEvery night I play as if my life depends on it.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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 just plug in and let go.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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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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It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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Our passion is our strength.
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The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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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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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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