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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!

Billie Joe Armstrong

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Class Middle People Thinking
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

Fighting Kids Sleep
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Matter Parent Sacrifice
My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band The Goal World
I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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Character Especially Parent Pretty
I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Listen Night Nocturnal Record Sleep
The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Home Naps Ordinary World
The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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Coming Dammit Darkness
When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Else Failing Fails Rockstar
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
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

Album Done Ordinary World
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Right Something Voicing
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
It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Different Parent Unique
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Playing Saws Swimming
I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Balance Musician Parent

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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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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