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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

And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Sake Want Writing
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’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Bags Rocks Want
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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Emotional Gutters Song
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
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Acoustics Four Kids
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
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
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.
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Album Done Ordinary World
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter
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 want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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People Son Want
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
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

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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.

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