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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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
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
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
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Demon Records Soul
We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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Broadway Directors Hbo Writer
Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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Absolute Coffee Dependably Ordinary
‎The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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Anymore Become Experiences New
If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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Ass Green Paint Soon Sure
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
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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People Son Want
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
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Able Important Together
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
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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Obnoxious Thought Today
It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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Different Parent Unique
Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Lying Nowhere Population

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