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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.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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
I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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Choices Men Thinking
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
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Culture Records Rocks
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Facts Fine Misunderstood
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
The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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Home Naps Ordinary World
Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Lying Nowhere Population
Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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Just Missionary Position
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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Embodies Lifestyle Punk
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Good Guy Looking Taste
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice
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
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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Musicians Rock Music Rocks
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Depend Night Play

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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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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