Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes & Sayings

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed. — Billie Joe Armstrong

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

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

Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem. — 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

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

Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time. — Billie Joe Armstrong

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. — Billie Joe Armstrong

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit. — Billie Joe Armstrong

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

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

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

I'm very monogamous. — 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

Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules. — 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

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere. — Billie Joe Armstrong

The darkness is coming now god dammit! — 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

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

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

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

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

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

I just open my mouth and out it comes. — 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

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

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

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I hate celebrities. I really hate them. — 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

Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time. — 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

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 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

I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working! — Billie Joe Armstrong

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

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

I like to keep my girlish figure — Billie Joe Armstrong

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman. — Billie Joe Armstrong

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it. — 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

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — 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

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down. — 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

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

I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA. — Billie Joe Armstrong

We put the fun back into dysfunctional — Billie Joe Armstrong

Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful. — 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

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

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy. — Billie Joe Armstrong

People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know? — Billie Joe Armstrong

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

I just plug in and let go. — 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

You don't mow another man's lawn! — 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

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

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself. — Billie Joe Armstrong

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

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

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

History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly. — 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

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. — Billie Joe Armstrong

When all else fails ... be a rockstar — Billie Joe Armstrong

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

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

That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping. — Billie Joe Armstrong

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

I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man. — Billie Joe Armstrong

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

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

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

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

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records. — 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

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

I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do. — 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

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 was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them. — 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

I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible. — Billie Joe Armstrong