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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.

Billie Joe Armstrong

When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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Ordinary World Radio Song
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.
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Character Nuts Ordinary Party World
I’m always a work in progress.
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Always Progress Work
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Able Important Together
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Acoustics Four Kids
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rain Run Running
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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Records Rocks Technology
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 an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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Able Honesty Kids
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 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
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Sail Wind
Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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Absolute Coffee Dependably Ordinary
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
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

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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.

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