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Billie Joe Armstrong

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.
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Mainstream Punk Rocks
The musical is amazing. i mean,i don’t throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009
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Humble Mean Talking
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
A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
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Men Punk Trash
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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Careers Ideas Possibly
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
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Acoustics Four Kids
We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Band Dream Years
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving
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
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rain Run Running
Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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Punk Something Stupid Trying
‎The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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Anymore Become Experiences New
I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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Character Country Differences Thinking
I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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Dope Smoking Song
I’m always a work in progress.
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Always Progress Work
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
I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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Hollywood Independent Spirit
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
Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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Broken Heart Glasses Together
I like to keep my girlish figure
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Figures Keep Like
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Depend Night Play
She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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Autumn Wind Winter
It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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Birthday Memories Older Thinking
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

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