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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

Billie Joe Armstrong

The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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Ordinary Rocks Special 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
We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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Fun Kids Together
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Able Important Together
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.
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Album Done Ordinary World
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Right Something Voicing
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Celebrities Hate People
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
I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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Choices Men Thinking
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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Believe Long Mean
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Day Green Rules
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.
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Character Figure Life Love Sense
I’m always a work in progress.
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Always Progress Work
I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Inward Ivory Tower Towers
Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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Couple Precious Script Shooting
When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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Empathy People Thinking
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Names Rocks Thinking
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter
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
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 identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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Come Imagine Klutziness Rock Roller
You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Get Like Nothing
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
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Lifestyle Punk Sound
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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Obnoxious Thought Today
If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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Ass Green Paint Soon Sure
With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
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Broken Dream Pretty Video

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