I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMy 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 rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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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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I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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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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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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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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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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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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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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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 know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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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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Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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