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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.

Billie Joe Armstrong

One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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Half Realized Song
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Acoustics Four Kids
The musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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Humble Mean Talking
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound
I’m always a work in progress.
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Always Progress Work
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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Day One People Up Wake
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Happiness Happy Humans Really
If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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Children Drugs Good House
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Bigger Boring Risk
I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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Come Imagine Klutziness Rock Roller
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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Band Hate Stupid
I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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Majority Sick Thinking
I like to keep my girlish figure
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Figures Keep Like
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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Emptiness Looks Rage

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