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I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.

Billie Joe Armstrong

One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

People Son Want
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
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
We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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Believe Long Mean
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Happiness Happy Humans Really
Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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Beautiful Life Pretty
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
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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Acoustics Finesse Guitar
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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Day One People Up Wake
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
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
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
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
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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Green People Rocks
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

I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.

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I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.

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