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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 think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Names Rocks Thinking
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
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
Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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Punk Something Stupid Trying
Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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Anyone Going Punk Realize Think
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Facts Fine Misunderstood
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter
Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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Air Blood Veins
I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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Character Especially Parent Pretty
Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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Dangerous Fun Rocks Roll
We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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Believe Long Mean
I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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Character Figure Life Love Sense
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
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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Band Rocks Roll Synching
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
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

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