Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?

I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.

We'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.

We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin

Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.

I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner

I just plug in and let go.

I just open my mouth and out it comes.

Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.

Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)

The musical is amazing. i mean,i don't throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot!" It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, "Absolutely!"

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.

They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.

With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!

Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.

Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.

When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't'. They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing.

Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

You don't get nothing and like it.

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.

I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea

If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.

I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.

My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it.

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.

I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.

The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.