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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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
Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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Kids People Reality
The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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Coming Dammit Darkness
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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People Song Writing
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
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
Our passion is our strength.
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Passion Strength
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
I just plug in and let go.
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Funny Inspiring Letting
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
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
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
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving
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

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