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

Billie Joe Armstrong

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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Listen Night Nocturnal Record Sleep
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Bags Rocks Want
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Expectations Impact Thinking
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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Kids People Reality
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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Air Blood Veins
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Demon Records Soul
We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Broadway Directors Hbo Writer
I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Come Imagine Klutziness Rock Roller
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
I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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Care Hippie Want
I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Class Middle People Thinking
Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

About Forever Mean Song
When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Album Done Ordinary World
With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Music Love Play Son

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