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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

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
I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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Character Especially Parent Pretty
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
With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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Music Love Play Son
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
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
Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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Absolute Coffee Dependably Ordinary
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
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Sail Wind
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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Day One People Up Wake
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 want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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People Song Writing
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
We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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Believe Long Mean
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
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
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving
I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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Prozac Used Working
The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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Character Daughter Thinking
Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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Emotional Gutters Song
I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Consumers Needs
I like to keep my girlish figure
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Figures Keep Like
I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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Majority Sick Thinking
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
My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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Band The Goal World

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