I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are … - Billie Joe Armstrong

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Billie Joe Armstrong

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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