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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.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Inward Ivory Tower Towers
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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Obnoxious Thought Today
I’m always a work in progress.
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Always Progress Work
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?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Majority Sick Thinking
The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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Background Broke People Quested The Question
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
The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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Coming Dammit Darkness
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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People Son Want
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 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
Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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Kids People Reality
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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Punk Rocks Thinking
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
The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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Home Naps Ordinary World
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
You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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Chicken Ice Cream Want Wings

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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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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