I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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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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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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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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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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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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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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