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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.

Billie Joe Armstrong

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Green People Rocks
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Country Differences Thinking
With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Broken Dream Pretty Video
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Playing Saws Swimming
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Records Rocks Technology
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Day One People Up Wake
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Happiness Happy Humans Really
There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Mean Money Some Successful Teacher
I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Great Opportunity Opportunity
We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Believe Long Mean
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Band Pride Trying
I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Consumers Needs
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Afraid Entertainers Time
Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Punk Something Stupid Trying
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].”
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ordinary World Radio Song
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Drunk Someone Thinking Time

The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.

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The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.

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