Article: GREEN DAY POP'S MOST POPULAR PUNKSCAN BILLIE JOE REMAIN AN OUTCAST AT NO. 1? WHY NOT?(PREVIEW)

Byline: JIM SULLIVAN Boston Globe

Ask Billie Joe Armstrong what his greatest challenge is at the moment and here's what comes back: ``Personally, being a father is one of the biggest challenges, the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my whole life, the most stressful. It's like you're fully responsible for this other human in your life. I want to try to give my son the opportunities I never got to have. That sounds like a pretty old-man thing to say, but up until `Dookie' I never had (anything). I came from a broke family. I don't want my kid to feel he has to struggle with that much.''

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