That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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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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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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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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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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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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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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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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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Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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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.
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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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I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.
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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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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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I just plug in and let go.
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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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.
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When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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