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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

Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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Dangerous Fun Rocks Roll
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 stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Able Important Together
The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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Character Daughter Thinking
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
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
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
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
I just plug in and let go.
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Funny Inspiring Letting
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’m always a work in progress.
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Always Progress Work
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
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rain Run Running
Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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Kids People Reality
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.
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Acoustics Finesse Guitar
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Right Something Voicing

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