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I just plug in and let go.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Growing Mean Running Up
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Lifestyle Punk Sound
Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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Fun Ipod Kids
I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Figure Life Love Sense
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.
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Birthday Memories Older Thinking
Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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Broken Heart Glasses Together
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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Heart Song Writing
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 sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Facts Fine Misunderstood
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Depend Loser Nothing
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
I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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Care Hippie Want
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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Lists Next Song Structure
You don’t get nothing and like it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Get Like Nothing
I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Comes Mouths Open
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful

I just plug in and let go.

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