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Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin

Billie Joe Armstrong

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Billie Joe Armstrong
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 17
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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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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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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.
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I wrote a song called Green Day because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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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 never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.
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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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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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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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No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.
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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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I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry's [in That's Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn't me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair's character] she didn't forget.
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When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, This song [Ordinary World] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].
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I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.
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Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.
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