Billie Joe Armstrong

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• A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!'
  • Reported in Matt Doeden, Green Day: Keeping Their Edge‎ (2006), p. 23.

• “School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?”
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• “We've been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.”
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• “Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.”
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• “Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.”
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• "Do you think I have time to care about what all the other ass holes care? If they don't like us fine. We don't play for the people, we play because we have fun doing it.” **http://thinkexist.com/quotes/billie_joe_armstrong/

• “We've been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we've done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f---n' believe in, because this is what it's all about,” http://thinkexist.com/quotes/billie_joe_armstrong/

• "Adrienne is the only woman I will ever love." http://www.quotelucy.com/quotes/billie-joe-armstrong-quotes-3.html

• “Having children is a big responsibility and I don't want to make a mess out of it. I don't want my son thinking that I care more for booze than I care for him. If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. You know they might reach it. It's just not good.” http://thinkexist.com/quotes/billie_joe_armstrong/

• “We don't really have a fair system, our social system doesn't work if you're poor in the US you're dirt poor and the distribution of wealth is more than uneven. If you're poor and you get sick you have no health insurance, no financial security, nothing. if that could be changed I wouldn't mind paying more tax, but I mind my taxes being spent on wars!” http://thinkexist.com/quotes/billie_joe_armstrong/

• "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." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/billie_joe_armstrong.html

• "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?" http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/billie_joe_armstrong.html

• "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." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/billie_joe_armstrong.html

• "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." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/billie_joe_armstrong.html

• "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." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/billie_joe_armstrong.html

• "I'm very monogamous." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/billie_joe_armstrong.html

• "If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/billie_joe_armstrong.html

• "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." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/billie_joe_armstrong_2.html

• "One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak." http://www.quotelucy.com/quotes/billie-joe-armstrong-quotes-2.html

• "There`s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it." http://www.quotelucy.com/quotes/billie-joe-armstrong-quotes-4.html