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I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it's civil rights. It doesn't get any better here in Berkeley I'll tell you that.

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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A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.
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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.
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Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin
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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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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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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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I just plug in and let go.
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It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
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I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't'. They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing.
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When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
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I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place
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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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Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.
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