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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

Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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Clubs Down Mentally Rocks
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Lifestyle Punk Sound
I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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Acting Broadway Bugs
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Happiness Happy Humans Really
A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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People Shut Up Waiting
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Depend Loser Nothing
One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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Half Realized Song
I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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Hollywood Independent Spirit
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
You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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Chicken Ice Cream Want Wings
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
That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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Expectations Impact Thinking
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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Records Rocks Technology
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rain Run Running
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

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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