Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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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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I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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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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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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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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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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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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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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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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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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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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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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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 think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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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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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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