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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Billie Joe Armstrong

My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fun Guy Wife
I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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Class Middle People Thinking
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
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Humble Mean Talking
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 thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Facts Fine Misunderstood
A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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People Shut Up Waiting
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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Lists Next Song Structure
I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Consumers Needs
I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Body Country Lice
I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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Great Opportunity Opportunity
With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Age Pass Roots Thinking
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
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Jobs Rocks Stars
Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Air Blood Veins

Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

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