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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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Great Opportunity Opportunity
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
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter
Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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Emotional Gutters Song
History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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Band Day Good One
To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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Culture Records Rocks
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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Mainstream Punk Rocks
I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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Character Figure Life Love Sense
When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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Ordinary World Radio Song
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
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 have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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Careers Ideas Possibly
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
It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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Birthday Memories Older Thinking
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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