Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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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.
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I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry's [in That's Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn't me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair's character] she didn't forget.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.
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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.
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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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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.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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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.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place.
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People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
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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.
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
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I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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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.