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I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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Billie Joe Armstrong
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 17
Composer
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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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There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.
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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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I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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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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Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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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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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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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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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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