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When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fun Ipod Kids
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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Green People Rocks
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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Records Rocks Technology
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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Apologizing Mouth Needs
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Bags Rocks Want
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Sake Want Writing
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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Playing Saws Swimming
That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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Expectations Impact Thinking
I just plug in and let go.
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Funny Inspiring Letting
Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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Dangerous Fun Rocks Roll
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.
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Drunk Someone Thinking Time
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.
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Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
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
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes

When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.

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When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.

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