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 ARMSTRONGI 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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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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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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