Explore Quotes by Billie Joe Armstrong

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

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

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

Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.

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

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

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.

Our passion is our strength.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

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.

The musical is amazing. i mean,i don't throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009

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