I just open my mouth and out it comes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGOne thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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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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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’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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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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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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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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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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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 don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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