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What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.

Billie Joe Armstrong

No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Happiness Happy Humans Really
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
Our passion is our strength.
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Passion Strength
Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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Air Blood Veins
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Lifestyle Punk Sound
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Day Green Rules
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
You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Get Like Nothing
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
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Sail Wind
Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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Couple Precious Script Shooting
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
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
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
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
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
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
I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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Class Middle People Thinking
The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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Home Naps Ordinary World
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
Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Lying Nowhere Population
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
With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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Music Love Play Son
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
Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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Beautiful Life Pretty
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice
Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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Apologizing Mouth Needs

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