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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Ordinary Rocks Special World
I’m always a work in progress.
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Always Progress Work
I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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Listen Night Nocturnal Record Sleep
A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Men Punk Trash
Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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Darkness Individuals Minorities Place
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Lists Next Song Structure
It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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Birthday Memories Older Thinking
Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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Just Missionary Position
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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Character Especially Parent Pretty
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
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acting Broadway Bugs
You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.
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Sail Wind
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!)
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Autumn Wind Winter
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Acoustics Four Kids
To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Culture Records Rocks

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