Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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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.
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I'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!
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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.
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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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Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!
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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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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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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
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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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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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The darkness is coming now god dammit!
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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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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.
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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.