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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.

Billie Joe Armstrong

When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Else Failing Fails Rockstar
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Perfect Practice School
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
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
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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Englishmen Impersonating Sound
You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Get Like Nothing
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 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’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
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
Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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Clubs Down Mentally Rocks
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Bigger Boring Risk
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Able Important Together
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Depend Night Play

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