Top 33 Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

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

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 hate celebrities. I really hate them.

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.

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

Our passion is our strength.

If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.

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.

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.

Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

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.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

I’m very monogamous.

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 love storytelling.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.