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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)
— Billie Joe Armstrong
And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
— Billie Holiday
Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I just open my mouth and out it comes.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.
— 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
I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
You don't mow another man's lawn!
— 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
You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
— 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
You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
— 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 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
You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
You don't get nothing and like it.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
— 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
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin
— Billie Joe Armstrong
History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
We've been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
When all else fails ... be a rockstar
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
— 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
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 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 plug in and let go.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
— 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
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!
— 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
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
We put the fun back into dysfunctional
— 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 got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I wrote a song called 'Green Day' because I was smoking a lot of dope.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.
— 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
I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I like to keep my girlish figure
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
— 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
Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.
— 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
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
— 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
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It's the worst name in the world
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now ... its AFI-liner
— 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
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I'm always a work in progress.
— 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 are not afraid to be entertainers.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
It's fun until someone gets hurt ... then it's hilarious.
— 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
If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— 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
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
A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
— 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
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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
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
I'm very monogamous.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.
— Gordon Korman
Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.
— 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
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
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
— 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
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
— Billie Joe Armstrong