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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.

Billie Joe Armstrong

One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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Half Realized Song
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
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 was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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Fighting Kids Sleep
We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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Band Pride Trying
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
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Bags Rocks Want
When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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Ordinary World Radio Song
It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
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Growing Mean Running Up
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
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
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Celebrities Hate People
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
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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Jobs Rocks Stars
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

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