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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.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Consumers Needs
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

People Son Want
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Emptiness Looks Rage
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.
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Beautiful Bisexual Taboo Thinking
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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Broken Dream Pretty Video
You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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Chicken Ice Cream Want Wings
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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Children Drugs Good House
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Sail Wind
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
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Jobs Rocks Stars
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Sake Want Writing
I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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Hollywood Independent Spirit
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
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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Class Middle People Thinking
Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anyone Going Punk Realize Think
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

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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