Billie Joe Armstrong famous quotes

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

#Loser

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

#Punk #Lifestyle

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Mistake #Making Mistakes

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Risk #Boring #Bigger

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Wind #Sail

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.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Thinking #People #Political

There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Teacher #Mean #Successful

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.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#People #Annoyed #Arrogance

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Today #Obnoxious

I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Stupid #Men #Thinking

I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Dna #Family And Friends #I Love My Friends

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.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Home #People #Want

Never run in the rain with your socks on.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Running #Rain #Sock

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

#School #Practice #Perfect

I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Used #Prozac

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

#Individuality #Way #Individualism

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

#Music #Granted

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

#Misunderstood #Facts #Fine

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

#Kids #Four #Letters

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.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Song #Crazy #Thinking

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Pride #Trying #Band

I just open my mouth and out it comes.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Mouths

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.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Fall #Mean #Cameras

They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Guy #Taste #Looking Good

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.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Play #Band #Clue

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.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Rocks #Punk #Punk Rock

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

#Men #Thinking #Choices

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.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Beautiful #Bisexual #Thinking

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.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Style #Would Be #Want

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Sound #Punk #Lifestyle

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

#Air #Blood #Veins

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

#Looks #Emptiness #Rage

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.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#America #Mecca #Youth

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.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Long #Care #Saws

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?
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Thinking #Sick #Majority

Our passion is our strength.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Passion