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I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?

Billie Joe Armstrong

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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Emptiness Looks Rage
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Perfect Practice School
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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Drug People Song
There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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Mean Money Some Successful Teacher
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
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
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
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
We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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Actors Importance Language Script
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
I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
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Character Figure Life Love Sense
When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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Empathy People Thinking
With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
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Music Love Play Son
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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Punk Rocks Thinking

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