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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

You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Right Something Voicing
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice
I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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Acting Broadway Bugs
I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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Balance Musician Parent
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’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Bags Rocks Want
It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
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Growing Mean Running Up
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
My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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Fun Guy Wife
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band Rocks Roll Synching
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
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Aggravation Art School
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Apologizing Mouth Needs
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
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Sake Want Writing
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving

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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