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.
Billie Joe ArmstrongWe're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.
Billie Joe ArmstrongThe 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.
Billie Joe ArmstrongPunk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
Billie Joe Armstrong