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A 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 Armstrong

I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Before Groove Making Started Stuff
That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Expectations Impact Thinking
I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Country Differences Thinking
Our passion is our strength.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Passion Strength
I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Care Hippie Want
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Beautiful Bisexual Taboo Thinking
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Mainstream Punk Rocks
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Bags Rocks Want
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Half Realized Song
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band Hate Stupid
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Athlete Brother Way
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Obnoxious Thought Today
That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fighting Kids Sleep
The darkness is coming now god dammit!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Coming Dammit Darkness
There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Able Honesty Kids
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 ARMSTRONG

Album Done Ordinary World

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