If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGNever run in the rain with your socks on.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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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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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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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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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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I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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Our passion is our strength.
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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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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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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