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

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Sail Wind
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Depend Night Play
It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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Different Parent Unique
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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Class Middle People Thinking
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Names Rocks Thinking
That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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Musicians Rock Music Rocks
I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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Come Imagine Klutziness Rock Roller
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
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Facts Fine Misunderstood
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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Day One People Up Wake
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
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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Mainstream Punk Rocks
I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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Careers Ideas Possibly
Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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Clubs Down Mentally Rocks
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Athlete Brother Way

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