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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Depend Night Play
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
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acoustics Finesse Guitar
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Demon Records Soul
The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Home Naps Ordinary World
If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Children Drugs Good House
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Half Realized Song
Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Lying Nowhere Population
It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Done Havens Regret
There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Mean Money Some Successful Teacher
The darkness is coming now god dammit!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Coming Dammit Darkness
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Facts Fine Misunderstood
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Demented Like
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Mainstream Punk Rocks
I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Beautiful Bisexual Taboo Thinking
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 ARMSTRONG

Empathy People Thinking

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