Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

We are not afraid to be entertainers. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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

We put the fun back into dysfunctional ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Ladies, if someone touches you and you don't want them to, feel free to punch them in the fucking face! ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!? ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know! ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Nobody ever said that life was fair. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

You don't mow another man's lawn! ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I'm sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Every night I play as if my life depends on it. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Pretty and demented at the same time, like me. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm always a work in progress. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm very monogamous. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

It's fun until someone gets hurt ... then it's hilarious. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Don't sweat the small stuff. It's good to let chaos take over and know in your heart that everything will be alright eventually." -Billie Joe Armstrong ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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

I like to keep my girlish figure ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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

Moshing and broken glass just don't go together. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't go voicing something if it's just not right. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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

Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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

I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I hate celebrities. I really hate them. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers! ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

We've been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot ... we've done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody ... do everything you f
n' believe in, because this is what it's all about, ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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

It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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

We've been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It's the worst name in the world ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

You don't get nothing and like it. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I just plug in and let go. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Never run in the rain with your socks on. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere) ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home. ~ Green Day

One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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

Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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

I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it's civil rights. It doesn't get any better here in Berkeley I'll tell you that. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old. I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That's every 20-year-old's dream - to do whatever the hell you want. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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

I wrote a song called 'Green Day' because I was smoking a lot of dope. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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

We put the fun in dysfunctional. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

Y'know, when I first started listening to punk rock music, I used to get my fucking ass kicked for it! I was known as a fucking freak! But now I'm amongst many many many freaks here with me tonight!
- Billie Joe Armstrong,Stay The Night, Reading Festival 2013 ~ Green Day

There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development. ~ Joe Armstrong

You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts. ~ Gordon Korman

It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.' ~ Joe Haldeman

The best thing to do is create a lagom number of processes. Erlang comes from Sweden, and the word lagom loosely translated means "not too few, not too many, just about right." Some say that this summarizes the Swedish character. ~ Joe Armstrong