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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

Billie Joe Armstrong

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Records Rocks Technology
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Balance Musician Parent
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
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

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

Everybody Joke Thought
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Attack Instruments Let
Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Punk Something Stupid Trying
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Bags Rocks Want
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acoustics Finesse Guitar
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Able Important Together
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Athlete Brother Way
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Clubs Down Mentally Rocks
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
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Heart Song Writing
You don’t get nothing and like it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Get Like Nothing
I just open my mouth and out it comes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Comes Mouths Open

No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

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