Quotes from Billie Joe Armstrong

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

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

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.

There are always young bands playing in their garages. 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.

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.

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

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

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.

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

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 darkness is coming now god dammit!

They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.

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

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

I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea

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.

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'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.

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

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

Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.

Every night I play as if my life depends on it.

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!