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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
When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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Drunk Someone Thinking Time
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
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
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Names Rocks Thinking
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound
‎The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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Anymore Become Experiences New
Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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Broken Heart Glasses Together
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
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
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
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
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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Day One People Up Wake
Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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Dangerous Fun Rocks Roll
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Perfect Practice School

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