When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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It’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.
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Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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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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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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I 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.
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It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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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!)
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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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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