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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Album Done Ordinary World
You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
You don’t get nothing and like it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Get Like Nothing
Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Punk Something Stupid Trying
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Sake Want Writing
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
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Lifestyle Punk Sound
The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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Coming Dammit Darkness
I’m always a work in progress.
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Always Progress Work
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Hollywood Independent Spirit
We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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Band Pride Trying
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
Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anyone Going Punk Realize Think
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
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Pushing Songwriter
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Mistake Risk Successful

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