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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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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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 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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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'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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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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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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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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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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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'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
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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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It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.
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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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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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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 have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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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.
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I'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!
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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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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.