Billie Joe Armstrong

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

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.

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.

If Britney would paint her ass green, I'm sure you could spot green asses all over LA as soon as the word was out.

I think people are born bisexual and its just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of Oh I cant. They say its taboo. Its ingrained in our heads that its bad when its not bad at all. Its a very beautiful thing.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

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

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

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

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.

School is practice for future life practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect so why practice

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.

I'm very monogamous.

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.

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.

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

Our passion is our strength.

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.

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.

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

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

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

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?

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

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