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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Aggravation Art School
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.
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Ordinary Rocks Special World
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Depend Loser Nothing
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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Jobs Rocks Stars
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Believe Long Mean
Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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Fun Ipod Kids
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Sake Want Writing
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Broadway Directors Hbo Writer
Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

About Forever Mean Song
I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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Brands Eyeliner Heard
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
I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Majority Sick Thinking
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
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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Anyone Going Punk Realize Think
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Day Green Rules
To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
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Anything Heart Mistake Successful
The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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Coming Dammit Darkness
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Pushing Songwriter
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Perfect Practice School
Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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Absolute Coffee Dependably Ordinary
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Beautiful Bisexual Taboo Thinking
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
What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Deeper Obviously Songs
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving
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
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

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