I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou don’t get nothing and like it.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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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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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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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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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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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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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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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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