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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

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Able Important Together
Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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Dangerous Fun Rocks Roll
I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Figure Life Love Sense
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
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
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
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.
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Anyone Going Punk Realize Think
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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Jobs Rocks Stars
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Bags Rocks Want
I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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Character Country Differences Thinking
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Good Guy Looking Taste
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
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
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Comes Mouths Open

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

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