When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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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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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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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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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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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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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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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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