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When all else fails…be a rockstar

Billie Joe Armstrong

Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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Kids People Reality
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Right Something Voicing
The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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Athlete Sports Believe
Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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Fun Ipod Kids
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
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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Men Stupid Thinking
To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
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Anything Heart Mistake Successful
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 sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound
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
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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Acoustics Finesse Guitar
We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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Broadway Directors Hbo Writer
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
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
You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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Chicken Ice Cream Want Wings

When all else fails…be a rockstar

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