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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

I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Consumers Needs
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

Able Honesty Kids
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Good Guy Looking Taste
I’m always a work in progress.
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Always Progress Work
I just plug in and let go.
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Funny Inspiring Letting
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
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
I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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People Song Writing
I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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Majority Sick Thinking
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
Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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Couple Precious Script Shooting
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Perfect Practice School
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
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 never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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Obnoxious Thought Today
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
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Humble Mean Talking
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
Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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Fun Ipod Kids
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
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
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].”
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Ordinary World Radio Song
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
The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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Coming Dammit Darkness
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
The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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Athlete Sports Believe
‎The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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Anymore Become Experiences New

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