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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
Billie Joe Armstrong
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Billie Joe Armstrong
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 17
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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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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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.
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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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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.
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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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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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We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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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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Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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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.
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