Best 132 quotes of Billie Joe Armstrong on MyQuotes

A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

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?

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

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.

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.

Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not.

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.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

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.

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.

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.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.

If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.

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

I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.

I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner

I just plug in and let go.

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.

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

I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

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.

I'm always a work in progress.

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

I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

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.

I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

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.

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

I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't'. They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing.

I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock 'n' roll bad together. I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I'm a pretty klutzy parent.