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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

I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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Dope Smoking Song
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
I just plug in and let go.
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Funny Inspiring Letting
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Athlete Brother Way
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
History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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Band Day Good One
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
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rain Run Running
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
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
Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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Couple Precious Script Shooting
That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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Expectations Impact Thinking
When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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Drunk Someone Thinking Time
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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Band Rocks Roll Synching
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Bigger Boring Risk

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.

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