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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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Balance Musician Parent
Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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Beautiful Life Pretty
I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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Drug People Song
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
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound
When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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Album Done Ordinary World
I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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Brands Eyeliner Heard
I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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Body Country Lice
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
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
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Happiness Happy Humans Really
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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Come Imagine Klutziness Rock Roller
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Demon Records Soul
I like to keep my girlish figure
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Figures Keep Like
What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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Deeper Obviously Songs
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Bigger Boring Risk
I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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Character Nuts Ordinary Party World
I’m always a work in progress.
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Always Progress Work
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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Jobs Rocks Stars
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Perfect Practice School
Our passion is our strength.
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Passion Strength
Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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Absolute Coffee Dependably Ordinary
Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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Broken Heart Glasses Together
You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Get Like Nothing
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter

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