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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

We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Athlete Brother Way
What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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Deeper Obviously Songs
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
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rain Run Running
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Right Something Voicing
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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Embodies Lifestyle Punk
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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Obnoxious Thought Today
When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
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Ordinary World Radio Song
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
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
Our passion is our strength.
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Passion Strength
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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Men Stupid Thinking
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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Band Rocks Roll Synching
Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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Apologizing Mouth Needs

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.

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