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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.

Billie Joe Armstrong

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Emptiness Looks Rage
A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

People Shut Up Waiting
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Bags Rocks Want
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
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Depend Night Play
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Men Punk Trash
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Forward Moving
History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band Day Good One
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Apologizing Mouth Needs
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Able Important Together
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
It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Birthday Memories Older Thinking
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Bigger Boring Risk
I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Especially Parent Pretty
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
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Matter Parent Sacrifice

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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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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