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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.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Inward Ivory Tower Towers
Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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Punk Something Stupid Trying
Our passion is our strength.
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Passion Strength
We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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Fun Kids Together
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
The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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Coming Dammit Darkness
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound
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
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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Band Hate Stupid
I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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Beautiful Bisexual Taboo Thinking
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Day Green Rules
One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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Half Realized Song
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Facts Fine Misunderstood
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 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
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 wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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Dope Smoking Song
I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Comes Mouths Open
I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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Character Country Differences Thinking
If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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Ligfe Magazines Next Poeple
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Good Guy Looking Taste
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Lifestyle Punk Sound
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.
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Men Punk Trash
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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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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