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I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!

Billie Joe Armstrong

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
When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Else Failing Fails Rockstar
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Able Important Together
You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Get Like Nothing
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Bags Rocks Want
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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Empathy People Thinking
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
I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Inward Ivory Tower Towers
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
If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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Children Drugs Good House
Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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Dangerous Fun Rocks Roll
It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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Done Havens Regret
I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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Come Imagine Klutziness Rock Roller
The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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Home Naps Ordinary World
I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Consumers Needs

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