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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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Billie Joe Armstrong
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 17
Composer
Film Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
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Musician
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Oakland
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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 want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea
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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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I wrote a song called Green Day because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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You don't get nothing and like it.
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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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This never gets old, and when it does, I'll go do a movie. I like the fact that I can get into other projects because everything feels fresh when I come back to music.
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If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it's civil rights. It doesn't get any better here in Berkeley I'll tell you that.
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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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A guy walks up to me and asks, What's Punk?. So I kick over a garbage can and say. That's punk!. So he kicks over the garbage can and says, That's Punk?, and I say, No that's trendy!
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I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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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?
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Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.
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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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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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