Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGSongs 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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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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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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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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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.
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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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I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
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