Explore Quotes by Billie Joe Armstrong

Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.

Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.

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.

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.

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 list at the drop of a hat.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

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

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?

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.

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'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.