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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

We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band Dream Years
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
The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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Ordinary Rocks Special World
Our passion is our strength.
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Passion Strength
We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Believe Long Mean
The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Background Broke People Quested The Question
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rain Run Running
I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Body Country Lice
Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Lying Nowhere Population
Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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Dangerous Fun Rocks Roll
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Sail Wind
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
Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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Embodies Lifestyle Punk
I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Careers Ideas Possibly
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Daughter Thinking
Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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Broken Heart Glasses Together
Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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Air Blood Veins
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Men Punk Trash
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Sake Want Writing
What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Deeper Obviously Songs
If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ligfe Magazines Next Poeple
When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ordinary World Radio Song
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
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
You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
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

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