Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

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.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

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

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.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

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

Ladies, if someone touches you and you don't want them to, feel free to punch them in the fucking face!

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

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.

Our passion is our strength.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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.