If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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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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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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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.
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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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