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 ARMSTRONGIt’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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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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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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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.
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