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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

Billie Joe Armstrong

We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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Broken Heart Glasses Together
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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Heart Song Writing
I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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Brands Eyeliner Heard
Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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About Forever Mean Song
I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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Choices Men Thinking
To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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Culture Records Rocks
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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Band Rocks Roll Synching
I like to keep my girlish figure
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Figures Keep Like
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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Lists Next Song Structure
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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Broken Dream Pretty Video
Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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Embodies Lifestyle Punk
With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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Age Pass Roots Thinking
Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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Beautiful Life Pretty

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