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Our passion is our strength.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Punk Something Stupid Trying
The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Athlete Sports Believe
Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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Beautiful Life Pretty
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acoustics Finesse Guitar
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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Band Rocks Roll Synching
Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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Dangerous Fun Rocks Roll
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice
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 started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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Great Opportunity Opportunity
I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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Class Middle People Thinking
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Happiness Happy Humans Really
I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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Careers Ideas Possibly
That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Musicians Rock Music Rocks
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
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

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