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We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#just #people #political #tell #them

I hate celebrities. I really hate them. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#hate #i #really #them

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#come #cows #going #gross-out #home

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#every #family #feeling #find #i

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#again #ask #asked #bands #because

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#everything #had #into #just #like

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#fit #found #going #good #good place

The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#bad #college #college students #did #done

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn. ↗

— Tori Amos

#being #church #corn #crab #father

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs. ↗

— Tori Amos

#conversation #having #i #live #play