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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

We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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Broadway Directors Hbo Writer
Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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Beautiful Life Pretty
It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
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Done Havens Regret
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Depend Loser Nothing
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
I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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Care Hippie Want
I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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Choices Men Thinking
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Perfect Practice School
I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.
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Before Groove Making Started Stuff
Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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Absolute Coffee Dependably Ordinary
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
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Names Rocks Thinking
The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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Athlete Sports Believe
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
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
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

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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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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