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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

Billie Joe Armstrong

That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Musicians Rock Music Rocks
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Apologizing Mouth Needs
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Emptiness Looks Rage
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Birthday Memories Older Thinking
Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

About Forever Mean Song
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice
If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Children Drugs Good House
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Facts Fine Misunderstood
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Lists Next Song Structure
The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Background Broke People Quested The Question
A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Men Punk Trash
What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Deeper Obviously Songs
I just plug in and let go.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Funny Inspiring Letting
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band Rocks Roll Synching
To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anything Heart Mistake Successful
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Everybody Joke Thought

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