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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Right Something Voicing
We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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Believe Long Mean
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.
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Hollywood Independent Spirit
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
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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Home Naps Ordinary World
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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Men Stupid Thinking
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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Darkness Individuals Minorities Place
We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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Fun Kids Together
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
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.
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Character Country Differences Thinking
When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Else Failing Fails Rockstar
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Sake Want Writing
I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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Care Hippie Want
A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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People Shut Up Waiting

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.

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