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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

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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Mainstream Punk Rocks
I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Comes Mouths Open
When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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Drunk Someone Thinking Time
I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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People Song Writing
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
When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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Ordinary World Radio Song
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Sail Wind
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Able Important Together
‎The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.
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Anymore Become Experiences New
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
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Right Something Voicing
There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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Able Honesty Kids
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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Jobs Rocks Stars
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’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 approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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Acoustics Finesse Guitar
You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Get Like Nothing
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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Band Rocks Roll Synching
When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Else Failing Fails Rockstar
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
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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Band Hate Stupid
If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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Ligfe Magazines Next Poeple
Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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Education Granted Music
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
History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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Band Day Good One
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
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time

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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