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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

Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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Darkness Individuals Minorities Place
Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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Emotional Gutters Song
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
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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Great Opportunity Opportunity
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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Jobs Rocks Stars
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Facts Fine Misunderstood
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
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
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Demon Records Soul
The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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Ordinary Rocks Special World
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
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
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
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Happiness Happy Humans Really
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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Dangerous Fun Rocks Roll
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
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Depend Night Play
I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Consumers Needs
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rain Run Running
When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Else Failing Fails Rockstar
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
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
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
Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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Just Missionary Position

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