Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.
Quotes to Explore
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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I really hate rubber ducks, actually.
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A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
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Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.
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I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.
