Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong explained to Q magazine May 2009: "It's like, the older you get the more you get detached from the naivety you had when you were growing up. How do you keep that spark?"
Gloria is one of two reoccurring characters that feature on 21st Century Breakdown. Whilst the kamikaze nihilist Christian is the side of Armstrong that he tries to keep under wrap, Gloria, who is fighting to hold on to her youthful idealism is a combination of the singer and his wife Adrienne.
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