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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
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.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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You don't get nothing and like it.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
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!)
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
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.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
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?
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
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.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
Tré Cool Green Day
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I can't stop bleeding and I can't stop having sex with corpses.
Tré Cool Green Day -
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.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!'
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
They should legalize pot! Do it! DO IT!
Tré Cool Green Day -
The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
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.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Michael Ryan Pritchard Green Day -
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
We put the fun back into dysfunctional.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
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.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day