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I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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
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
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 started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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Great Opportunity Opportunity
A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
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Men Punk Trash
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Depend Loser Nothing
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
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
Our passion is our strength.
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Passion Strength
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
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
It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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Birthday Memories Older Thinking
I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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Come Imagine Klutziness Rock Roller
A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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People Shut Up Waiting
That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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Expectations Impact Thinking
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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