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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

Billie Joe Armstrong

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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Green People Rocks
Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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Absolute Coffee Dependably Ordinary
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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Band Hate Stupid
To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
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Anything Heart Mistake Successful
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
The musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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Humble Mean Talking
Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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Anyone Going Punk Realize Think
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
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
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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Character Daughter Thinking
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Acoustics Four Kids
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
I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Comes Mouths Open
What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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Deeper Obviously Songs
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.
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Punk Rocks Thinking
There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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Mean Money Some Successful Teacher

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