There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGOne thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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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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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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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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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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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 just open my mouth and out it comes.
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I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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