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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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.
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Band Hate Stupid
We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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Fun Kids Together
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
Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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Clubs Down Mentally Rocks
Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Lying Nowhere Population
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.
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Mainstream Punk Rocks
I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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Balance Musician Parent
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
I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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Pushing Songwriter
She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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Autumn Wind Winter
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice
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
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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Day One People Up Wake
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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Obnoxious Thought Today
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
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

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