Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
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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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I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it's civil rights. It doesn't get any better here in Berkeley I'll tell you that.
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
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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.
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I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.
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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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I'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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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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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
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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.
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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.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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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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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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I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)
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Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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You don't get nothing and like it.