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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

Billie Joe Armstrong

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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Day One People Up Wake
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Able Important Together
My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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Fun Guy Wife
That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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Expectations Impact Thinking
A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
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Men Punk Trash
It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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Birthday Memories Older Thinking
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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Playing Saws Swimming
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
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
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
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
That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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Fighting Kids Sleep
You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Get Like Nothing
Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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About Forever Mean Song
To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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Culture Records Rocks
We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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Actors Importance Language Script

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