Quotes By Billie Joe Armstrong

Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

If Britney would paint her ass green, I'm sure you could spot green asses all over LA as soon as the word was out.

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

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.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

I love storytelling.

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

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?

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Our passion is our strength.

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.

I'm very monogamous.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.

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.

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.