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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
Billie Joe Armstrong
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Billie Joe Armstrong
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 17
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I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
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