Top 90 Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

52. “I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

53. “I like to keep my girlish figure.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

54. “You don’t mow another man’s lawn!”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

55. “I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

56. “Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I’ve ever seen in my whole life, and I didn’t like it.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

57. “The darkness is coming now god dammit!”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

58. “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

59. “I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn’t we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it’s civil rights. It doesn’t get any better here in Berkeley I’ll tell you that.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

60. “That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

61. “I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

62. “And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

63. “That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

64. “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.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

65. “If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it’s not quite right if he’s not on stage with me.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

66. “One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

67. “You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

68. “I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

69. “Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

70. “Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn’t mean things aren’t going to change in your own life.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

71. “Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

72. “I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

73. “One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

74. “To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

75. “I just plug in and let go.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

76. “Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

77. “Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

78. “I’m an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you’re stoned.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

79. “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

80. “I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

81. “We’re gonna get high, high, high, when we’re low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don’t know!”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

82. “I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

83. “Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

84. “You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

85. “I wrote a song called ‘Green Day’ because I was smoking a lot of dope.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

86. “Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

87. “I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

88. “I just open my mouth and out it comes.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

89. “We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

— Billie Joe Armstrong

91. “I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

92. “History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

93. “Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

94. “Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

95. “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!”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

96. “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

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

— Billie Joe Armstrong

98. “Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s good to let chaos take over and know in your heart that everything will be alright eventually.” -Billie Joe Armstrong.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

99. “I think I’ve always been bisexual. I mean, it’s something that I’ve always been interested in. 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