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When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Class Middle People Thinking
With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Music Love Play Son
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Punk Rocks Thinking
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Heart Song Writing
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
I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Nuts Ordinary Party World
‎The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anymore Become Experiences New
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’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band Dream Years
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Green People Rocks
The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ordinary Rocks Special World
When all else fails…be a rockstar
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Else Failing Fails Rockstar
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Half Realized Song
I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Figure Life Love Sense
Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Absolute Coffee Dependably Ordinary
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Perfect Practice School

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