The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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 just plug in and let go.
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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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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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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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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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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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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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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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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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