There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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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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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.
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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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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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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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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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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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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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