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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

Billie Joe Armstrong

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
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Green People Rocks
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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Ordinary World Radio Song
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
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
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Depend Night Play
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Right Something Voicing
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
Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
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Broken Heart Glasses Together
The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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Character Daughter Thinking
I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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Hollywood Independent Spirit
Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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Absolute Coffee Dependably Ordinary
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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Band Pride Trying
It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
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Growing Mean Running Up
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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Demented Like
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rain Run Running

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