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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.

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
I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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Character Nuts Ordinary Party World
I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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Hollywood Independent Spirit
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Get Like Nothing
My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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Fun Guy Wife
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
Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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Kids People Reality
I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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Brands Eyeliner Heard
What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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Deeper Obviously Songs
It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
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Growing Mean Running Up
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
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
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving
That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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Musicians Rock Music Rocks

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