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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

I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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Dope Smoking Song
Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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Air Blood Veins
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.
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Character Daughter Thinking
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
Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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Beautiful Life Pretty
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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Band Hate Stupid
Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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Couple Precious Script Shooting
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter
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
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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People Song Writing
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.
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Half Realized Song
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Facts Fine Misunderstood
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Acoustics Four Kids

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That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.

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