Quotes By Billie Joe Armstrong

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I love storytelling.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?