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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 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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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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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
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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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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 have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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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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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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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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We've been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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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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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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I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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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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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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It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.
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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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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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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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