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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

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
Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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Emotional Gutters Song
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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Obnoxious Thought Today
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Day Green Rules
My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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Band The Goal World
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Happiness Happy Humans Really
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Demon Records Soul
I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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Careers Ideas Possibly
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!
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Broken Dream Pretty Video
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
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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Fighting Kids Sleep
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
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
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Aggravation Art School
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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Playing Saws Swimming
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 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
There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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Able Honesty Kids
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
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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Lists Next Song Structure
I like to keep my girlish figure
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Figures Keep Like
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Able Important Together
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
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
Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.
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Anyone Going Punk Realize Think

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