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I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

Billie Joe Armstrong

I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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Character Nuts Ordinary Party World
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
There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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Able Honesty Kids
Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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Broken Heart Glasses Together
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
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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Class Middle People Thinking
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Athlete Brother Way
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
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Celebrities Hate People
That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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Musicians Rock Music Rocks
You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Get Like Nothing
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
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 don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Inward Ivory Tower Towers

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