I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIf you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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It’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.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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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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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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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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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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