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I like to keep my girlish figure

Billie Joe Armstrong

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
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
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 ARMSTRONG

Band Hate Stupid
Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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Couple Precious Script Shooting
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
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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Punk Rocks Thinking
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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Character Especially Parent Pretty
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
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Playing Saws Swimming
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 think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Names Rocks Thinking
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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Acting Broadway Bugs
The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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Coming Dammit Darkness
I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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Character Nuts Ordinary Party World
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Lifestyle Punk Sound
She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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Autumn Wind Winter
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Celebrities Hate People
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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Apologizing Mouth Needs
I’m always a work in progress.
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Always Progress Work
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Done Havens Regret
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’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ordinary Rocks Special World

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