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To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.

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.
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People Son Want
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
You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rain Run Running
Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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Apologizing Mouth Needs
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
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Comes Mouths Open
With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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Age Pass Roots 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
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Good Guy Looking Taste
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound
If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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Children Drugs Good House
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Acoustics Four Kids
As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
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Giving Ordinary Scripts World
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

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