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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

Billie Joe Armstrong

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Acoustics Four Kids
My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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Fun Guy Wife
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
I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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Balance Musician Parent
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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Men Stupid Thinking
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
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Day Green Rules
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
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
Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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Clubs Down Mentally Rocks
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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Punk Rocks Thinking
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Bigger Boring Risk
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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Band Hate Stupid
Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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About Forever Mean Song
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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Records Rocks Technology

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