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Billie Joe Armstrong

When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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Album Done Ordinary World
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Depend Loser Nothing
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
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
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Culture Records Rocks
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Bigger Boring Risk
When all else fails…be a rockstar
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Else Failing Fails Rockstar
Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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Attack Instruments Let
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 fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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Home Naps Ordinary World
You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
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
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
With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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Age Pass Roots Thinking
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
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful

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