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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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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.
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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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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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I 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.
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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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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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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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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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It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
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