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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.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Beautiful Bisexual Taboo Thinking
I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Come Imagine Klutziness Rock Roller
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Athlete Brother Way
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Mainstream Punk Rocks
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Mean Money Some Successful Teacher
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
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Celebrities Hate People
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Heart Song Writing
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band Hate Stupid
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].”
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ordinary World Radio Song
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Attack Instruments Let
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band Dream Years
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Records Rocks Technology
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Englishmen Impersonating Sound
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Facts Fine Misunderstood
With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Music Love Play Son

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