I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWith my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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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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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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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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I like to keep my girlish figure
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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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