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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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.
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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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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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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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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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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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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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