We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all 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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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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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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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.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at 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’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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