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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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.
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Half Realized Song
I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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Great Opportunity Opportunity
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
I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Consumers Needs
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
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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Facts Fine Misunderstood
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 thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving
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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Ordinary Rocks Special World
I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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Choices Men Thinking
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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Jobs Rocks Stars
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Bigger Boring Risk
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acoustics Finesse Guitar
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
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Sail Wind

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