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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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Character Nuts Ordinary Party World
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Depend Night Play
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.
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Anyone Going Punk Realize Think
I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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Brands Eyeliner Heard
I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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People Song Writing
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
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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Mainstream Punk Rocks
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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Records Rocks Technology
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Acoustics Four Kids
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Names Rocks Thinking
We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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Actors Importance Language Script
You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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Education Granted Music
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving
I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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Hollywood Independent Spirit

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.

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