I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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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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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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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.
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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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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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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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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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Our passion is our strength.
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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