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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

When all else fails…be a rockstar
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Else Failing Fails Rockstar
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Bags Rocks Want
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Day One People Up Wake
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.
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Broadway Directors Hbo Writer
I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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Body Country Lice
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
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Couple Precious Script Shooting
To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anything Heart Mistake Successful
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
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Clubs Down Mentally Rocks
If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ass Green Paint Soon Sure
When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ordinary World Radio Song
Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Education Granted Music
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Sake Want Writing
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Sail Wind

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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