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The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Demented Like
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

Character Daughter Thinking
When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ordinary World Radio Song
I just plug in and let go.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Funny Inspiring Letting
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
There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Mean Money Some Successful Teacher
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
You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
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
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anything Better Making Mistakes
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Jobs Rocks Stars
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anyone Going Punk Realize Think
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Happiness Happy Humans Really
Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Dangerous Fun Rocks Roll
I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

People Song Writing
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

The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.

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