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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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Obnoxious Thought Today
I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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Careers Ideas Possibly
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 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
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
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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Playing Saws Swimming
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
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Lifestyle Punk Sound
It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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Done Havens Regret
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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Mainstream Punk Rocks
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
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
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
My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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Band The Goal World

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