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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Day Green Rules
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.
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Album Done Ordinary World
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter
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
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
Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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Darkness Individuals Minorities Place
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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People Son Want
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
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
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Acoustics Four Kids
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Lifestyle Punk Sound
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
With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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Broken Dream Pretty Video

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