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I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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Couple Precious Script Shooting
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound
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
I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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Listen Night Nocturnal Record Sleep
To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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Culture Records Rocks
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Depend Night Play
I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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Beautiful Bisexual Taboo Thinking
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice
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
I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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Care Hippie Want
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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Jobs Rocks Stars
One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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Half Realized Song
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.
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Emotional Gutters Song
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Athlete Brother Way
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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Punk Rocks Thinking
Our passion is our strength.
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Passion Strength

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