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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.

Billie Joe Armstrong

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Emptiness Looks Rage
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Pushing Songwriter
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Punk Rocks Thinking
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Lifestyle Punk Sound
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Depend Night Play
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Heart Song Writing
My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band The Goal World
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 Especially Parent Pretty
If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ass Green Paint Soon Sure
It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Birthday Memories Older Thinking
You don’t get nothing and like it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Get Like Nothing
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 Ipod Kids
With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Music Love Play Son
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Rain Run Running
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

Character Figure Life Love Sense
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Bags Rocks Want

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.

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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.

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