We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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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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.
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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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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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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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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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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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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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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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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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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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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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As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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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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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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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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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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