Latest Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes from Interviews

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• When you start getting into your politics it's like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it's always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you're taking. You're not telling people to think, you're telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Thinking, People, Empathy

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• 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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Ordinary World, Rocks, Special

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Ordinary World, Albums, Done

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Doe, Facts, Projects

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Home, Naps, Ordinary World

  Source: collider.com

• 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]."

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Song, Ordinary World, Radio

  Source: collider.com

• We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Fun, Kids, Together

  Source: collider.com

• I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Independent, Hollywood, Spirit

  Source: collider.com

• Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Fun, Kids, Ipods

  Source: collider.com

• We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Together, Important, Able

  Source: collider.com

• It's not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It's a music language that's unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Unique, Parent, Different

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Party, Home, Son

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Parent, Balance, Musician

  Source: collider.com

• With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Son, Play, Music Love

  Source: collider.com

• No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Sacrifice, Parent, What If

  Source: collider.com

• I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Careers, Ideas, No Idea

  Source: collider.com

• The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He's having a mid-life moment, and it's a small moment, really. I think that the character actually really loves where he's at, in his life. He's just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Daughter, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

• There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Couple, Fun, Love Is

  Source: collider.com

• That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, Musician, Rock Music

  Source: collider.com

• My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Fun, Wife, Guy

  Source: collider.com

• I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock 'n' roll bad together. I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I'm a pretty klutzy parent.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Character, Thinking, Differences

  Source: collider.com

• What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, Band, Rock N Roll

  Source: collider.com

• It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Acting, Broadway, Idiot

  Source: collider.com

• As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot!" It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, "Absolutely!"

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Ordinary World, Giving, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

• Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Coffee, Ordinary, Ordinary Things

  Source: www.vulture.com