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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

Billie Joe Armstrong

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Athlete Brother Way
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
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
My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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Fun Guy Wife
Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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Education Granted Music
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
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving
I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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Acting Broadway Bugs
I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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Listen Night Nocturnal Record Sleep
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
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
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Mainstream Punk Rocks
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Bigger Boring Risk
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
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
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

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