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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 hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Celebrities Hate People
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Happiness Happy Humans Really
I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Consumers Needs
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
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
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
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
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
History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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Band Day Good One
I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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Character Nuts Ordinary Party World
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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Jobs Rocks Stars
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
If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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Ligfe Magazines Next Poeple
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Bigger Boring Risk
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
I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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Acting Broadway Bugs
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.
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Background Broke People Quested The Question
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Right Something Voicing
I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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Class Middle People Thinking
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Depend Night Play
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
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
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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Obnoxious Thought Today
Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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Broken Heart Glasses Together
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Acoustics Four Kids
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Perfect Practice School
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Demon Records Soul

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