Quotes By Billie Joe Armstrong

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

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.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?

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

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

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

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.

Our passion is our strength.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

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.

I'm very monogamous.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.

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.

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

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

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.

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.

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

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

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 approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.