We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I just plug in and let go.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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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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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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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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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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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 heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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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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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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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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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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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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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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