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Billie Joe Armstrong

My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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Fun Guy Wife
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Celebrities Hate People
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Bags Rocks Want
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.
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Acoustics Finesse Guitar
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Good Guy Looking Taste
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
With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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Age Pass Roots Thinking
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Perfect Practice School
We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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Band Pride Trying
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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People Son Want
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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Album Done Ordinary World
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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