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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving
Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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Education Granted Music
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Demon Records Soul
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Celebrities Hate People
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Depend Night Play
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound
Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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Beautiful Life Pretty
A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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People Shut Up Waiting
We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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Actors Importance Language Script
You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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Acting Broadway Bugs
I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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Character Especially Parent Pretty
We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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Broadway Directors Hbo Writer

I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.

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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.

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