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 ARMSTRONGYou can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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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.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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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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Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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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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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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I’m always a work in progress.
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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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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Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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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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