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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.

Billie Joe Armstrong

My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Jobs Rocks Stars
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
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Actors Importance Language Script
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
I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Come Imagine Klutziness Rock Roller
We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fun Kids Together
I like to keep my girlish figure
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Figures Keep Like
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Bags Rocks Want
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Broadway Directors Hbo Writer
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Lifestyle Punk Sound
Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Embodies Lifestyle Punk
I just plug in and let go.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Funny Inspiring Letting
I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Body Country Lice
Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fun Ipod Kids
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Attack Instruments Let
A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

People Shut Up Waiting

Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.

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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.

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