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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.

Billie Joe Armstrong

To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Culture Records Rocks
When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Drunk Someone Thinking Time
When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Album Done Ordinary World
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Believe Long Mean
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Balance Musician Parent
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Rain Run Running
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acoustics Finesse Guitar
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Lists Next Song Structure
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Names Rocks Thinking
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Hollywood Independent Spirit
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Daughter Thinking
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

People Son Want
The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Athlete Sports Believe
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Right Something Voicing
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Emptiness Looks Rage
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Perfect Practice School

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