Quotes By Billie Joe Armstrong

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

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

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

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

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.

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

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.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.