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Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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
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
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
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Celebrities Hate People
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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Heart Song Writing
When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Else Failing Fails Rockstar
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
Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Lying Nowhere Population
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
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
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Comes Mouths Open
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
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
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rain Run Running
When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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Album Done Ordinary World

Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

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