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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

Billie Joe Armstrong

It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
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Growing Mean Running Up
I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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Character Especially Parent Pretty
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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Records Rocks Technology
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
My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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Band The Goal World
That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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Expectations Impact Thinking
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.
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Character Figure Life Love Sense
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
There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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Able Honesty Kids
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Day Green Rules
I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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Character Nuts Ordinary Party World
The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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Background Broke People Quested The Question
That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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Fighting Kids Sleep
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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Jobs Rocks Stars
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Demon Records Soul
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice

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