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You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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
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
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Demon Records Soul
I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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Acting Broadway Bugs
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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Band Day Good One
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 don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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Care Hippie Want
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Sake Want Writing
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.
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Lists Next Song Structure
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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Able Important Together
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Bags Rocks Want
Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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Embodies Lifestyle Punk
The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.
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Ordinary Rocks Special World
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Athlete Brother Way

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