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I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.

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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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Demon Records Soul
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
I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Inward Ivory Tower Towers
I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
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Prozac Used Working
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
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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Obnoxious Thought Today
Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
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Absolute Coffee Dependably Ordinary
Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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About Forever Mean Song
One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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Half Realized Song
I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
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People Song Writing
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
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
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
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
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 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
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.
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Expectations Impact Thinking
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?
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Perfect Practice School
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Names Rocks Thinking
The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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Coming Dammit Darkness
Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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Fun Ipod Kids
Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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Kids People Reality
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
The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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Background Broke People Quested The Question
I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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Great Opportunity Opportunity
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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Acoustics Finesse Guitar

I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.

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