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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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Fun Kids Together
I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of ‘Oh, I can’t’. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.
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Beautiful Bisexual Taboo Thinking
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice
When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Else Failing Fails Rockstar
I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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Body Country Lice
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Names Rocks Thinking
I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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Majority Sick Thinking
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Sake Want Writing
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
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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Day One People Up Wake
I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
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Character Especially Parent Pretty
Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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Fun Ipod Kids
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
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

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