For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWith age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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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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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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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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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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