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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

Billie Joe Armstrong

A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Men Punk Trash
I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
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Aggravation Art School
There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Able Honesty Kids
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Broadway Directors Hbo Writer
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Sail Wind
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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Character Daughter Thinking
I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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Drug People Song
When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Empathy People Thinking
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acoustics Four Kids
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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Air Blood Veins
My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band The Goal World
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band Rocks Roll Synching
You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Chicken Ice Cream Want Wings
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Everybody Joke Thought
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Nuts Ordinary Party World
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Listen Night Nocturnal Record Sleep

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