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Billie Joe Armstrong

With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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Broken Dream Pretty Video
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.
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Punk Rocks Thinking
To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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Culture Records Rocks
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Depend Loser Nothing
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.
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Broadway Directors Hbo Writer
When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Else Failing Fails Rockstar
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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Day One People Up Wake
Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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Dangerous Fun Rocks Roll
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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Men Stupid Thinking
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.
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Believe Long Mean
Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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Beautiful Life Pretty
I just plug in and let go.
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Funny Inspiring Letting
Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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Clubs Down Mentally Rocks
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
I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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Class Middle People Thinking
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Bigger Boring Risk

I’m always a work in progress.

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