Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
-
-
When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
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 -
I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG