The darkness is coming now god dammit!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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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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That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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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 sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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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 think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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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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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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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?
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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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Our passion is our strength.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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The musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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