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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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Billie Joe Armstrong
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 17
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I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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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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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all they're taking it to the hilt.
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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 sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
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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 wrote a song called Green Day because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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You don't get nothing and like it.
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I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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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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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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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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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
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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 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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