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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
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Aggravation Art School
With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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Broken Dream Pretty Video
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Sail Wind
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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Emptiness Looks Rage
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Right Something Voicing
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
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
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Get Like Nothing
I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Comes Mouths Open
Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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Emotional Gutters Song
I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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People Song Writing
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 it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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Choices Men Thinking
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
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

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