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When all else fails…be a rockstar

Billie Joe Armstrong

With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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Broken Dream Pretty Video
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Day Green Rules
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
Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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Punk Something Stupid Trying
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter
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
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Perfect Practice School
That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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Musicians Rock Music Rocks
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
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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Obnoxious Thought Today
Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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Clubs Down Mentally Rocks
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
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Good Guy Looking Taste
If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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Ass Green Paint Soon Sure
I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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Drug People Song
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound

When all else fails…be a rockstar

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