My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMy brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIt would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMy job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGSchool is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGControversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGOne thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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 ARMSTRONGHistory will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIf I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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