Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

This never gets old, and when it does, I'll go do a movie. I like the fact that I can get into other projects because everything feels fresh when I come back to music.

With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.

The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.

If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I'm sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.

We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.

I'm always a work in progress.

Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.

One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.

Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.

There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff.

Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.

Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.

You don't mow another man's lawn!

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.