Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

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.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.

The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.

Every night I play as if my life depends on it.

We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.

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.

When all else fails...be a rockstar

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

We put the fun back into dysfunctional

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.

Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem.

I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.

That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

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.

Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.

That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.

I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

I like to keep my girlish figure

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.

I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not.

I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!

No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

It's not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It's a music language that's unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.

If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.

You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

Never run in the rain with your socks on.

I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.

Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.

The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.