To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGAs 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!”
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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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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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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Our passion is our strength.
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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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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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I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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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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