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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”

Billie Joe Armstrong

I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Country Differences Thinking
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Lists Next Song Structure
To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anything Heart Mistake Successful
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Mistake Risk Successful
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

Band Hate Stupid
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Forward Moving
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Green People Rocks
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Beautiful Bisexual Taboo Thinking
I just open my mouth and out it comes.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Comes Mouths Open
If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ass Green Paint Soon Sure
Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Beautiful Life Pretty
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anything Better Making Mistakes
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Mainstream Punk Rocks
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Expectations Impact Thinking
You don’t get nothing and like it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Get Like Nothing
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Birthday Memories Older Thinking

When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”

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When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”

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