What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWhat I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIt’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGA lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIf you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGSchool is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou don’t get nothing and like it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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 also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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 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 ARMSTRONGMy goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG