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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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
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Billie Joe Armstrong
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 17
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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