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Billie Joe Armstrong

The musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Humble Mean Talking
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
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Demon Records Soul
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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Green People Rocks
I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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Drug People Song
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
Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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Apologizing Mouth Needs
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.
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Balance Musician Parent
Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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Darkness Individuals Minorities Place
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
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Emptiness Looks Rage
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Heart Song Writing
Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Air Blood Veins
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Right Something Voicing
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Records Rocks Technology
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Facts Fine Misunderstood

I just plug in and let go.

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