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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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Punk Something Stupid Trying
My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Fun Guy Wife
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Lifestyle Punk Sound
Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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Couple Precious Script Shooting
I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Inward Ivory Tower Towers
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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People Son Want
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Sail Wind
I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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Great Opportunity Opportunity
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
Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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Education Granted Music
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Forward Moving
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Jobs Rocks Stars
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
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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Heart Song Writing
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Aggravation Art School

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