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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

I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Choices Men Thinking
We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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Broadway Directors Hbo Writer
With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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Broken Dream Pretty Video
We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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Believe Long Mean
I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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Character Especially Parent Pretty
When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Else Failing Fails Rockstar
You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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Chicken Ice Cream Want Wings
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Good Guy Looking Taste
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Demon Records Soul
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving
I just plug in and let go.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Funny Inspiring Letting
A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Men Punk Trash
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
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Happiness Happy Humans Really
That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fighting Kids Sleep
I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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Listen Night Nocturnal Record Sleep
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
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 got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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Body Country Lice
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
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Perfect Practice School
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Lifestyle Punk 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
I like to keep my girlish figure
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Figures Keep Like
She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Autumn Wind Winter

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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