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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

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Billie Joe Armstrong
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 17
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. 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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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.
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