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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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

Hollywood Independent Spirit
It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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Different Parent Unique
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Demon Records Soul
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fighting Kids Sleep
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Acoustics Four Kids
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
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Come Imagine Klutziness Rock Roller
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Background Broke People Quested The Question
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Home Naps Ordinary World
You don’t get nothing and like it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Get Like Nothing
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acoustics Finesse Guitar
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

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