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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMy goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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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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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 never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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I just plug in and let go.
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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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Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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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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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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