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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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
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.
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Balance Musician Parent
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
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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Green People Rocks
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 my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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Music Love Play Son
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
I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Consumers Needs
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
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter
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
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
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’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Bags Rocks Want
The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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Ordinary Rocks Special World
We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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Fun Kids Together

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