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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

Billie Joe Armstrong

When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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Drunk Someone Thinking Time
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Sail Wind
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice
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.
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Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Acoustics Four Kids
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
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
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Perfect Practice School
I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Inward Ivory Tower Towers
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.
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Men Punk Trash
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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Dope Smoking Song
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
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
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

There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

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