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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Country Differences Thinking
I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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Prozac Used Working
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Depend Loser Nothing
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
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.
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Growing Mean Running Up
When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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Empathy People Thinking
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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Lists Next Song Structure
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
I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Comes Mouths Open
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Bags Rocks Want
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Sake Want Writing
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
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Celebrities Hate People
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Perfect Practice School
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years

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