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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

Billie Joe Armstrong

It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Birthday Memories Older Thinking
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Names Rocks 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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Daughter Thinking
It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Growing Mean Running Up
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Sail Wind
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anyone Going Punk Realize Think
Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Emotional Gutters Song
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Men Stupid Thinking
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Emptiness Looks Rage
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Pushing Songwriter
Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Broken Heart Glasses Together
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Demon Records Soul
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

Kids People Reality
The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Background Broke People Quested The Question
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anything Better Making Mistakes
Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Absolute Coffee Dependably Ordinary

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