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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.

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Billie Joe Armstrong
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 17
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