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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

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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Nuts Ordinary Party World
You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Get Like Nothing
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
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.
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Fun Ipod Kids
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
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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Playing Saws Swimming
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
I just plug in and let go.
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Funny Inspiring Letting
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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Heart Song Writing
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
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Depend Loser Nothing
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
I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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People Song Writing
I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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Balance Musician Parent
I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Comes Mouths Open
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

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