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I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
Billie Joe Armstrong
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Billie Joe Armstrong
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 17
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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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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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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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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Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.
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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 because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.
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We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!
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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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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.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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