Top 90 Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m always a work in progress.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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2. “It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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3. “Music to me is the air I breathe, it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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4. “You can’t change the wind but you can set your sails.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

5. “Our passion is our strength.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

6. “Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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7. “It’s okay to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

8. “Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

9. “We put the fun back into dysfunctional.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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10. “To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

11. “I don’t feel any shame I won’t apologize if there ain’t nowhere you can go running away from pain when you’ve been victimized tales from another broken home.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

12. “Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

13. “A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

14. “I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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15. “I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

16. “Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you’re struck down.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

17. “I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

18. “Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

19. “Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

20. “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

21. “My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

22. “Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

23. “Every night I play as if my life depends on it.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

24. “Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I’ll shoot you. No problem.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

— Billie Joe Armstrong

26. “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

27. “Never run in the rain with your socks on.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

28. “I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

29. “Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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30. “Punk is dead to anyone who didn’t get it in the first place.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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31. “Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

32. “It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

33. “The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

34. “Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

35. “I love my friends and family, but playing, that’s my DNA.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

36. “We are not afraid to be entertainers.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

37. “People think we really look good. I think that’s the biggest misconception people have.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

38. “Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

39. “They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

40. “You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

41. “When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

42. “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.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

43. “There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

44. “I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

45. “A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

46. “I’m not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

47. “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.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

48. “The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

49. “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

50. “The thing is, my education was music. I knew I’d be playing music no matter what. That’s all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I’m still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong