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I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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
I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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Choices Men Thinking
My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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Band The Goal World
I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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Come Imagine Klutziness Rock Roller
Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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Just Missionary Position
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
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
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
There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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Able Honesty Kids
Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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Anyone Going Punk Realize Think
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
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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Band Rocks Roll Synching
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Able Important Together
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
The musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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Humble Mean Talking

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