Top 185 Quotes & Sayings by Billie Joe Armstrong - Page 3

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.

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

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!

The darkness is coming now god dammit!

I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry's [in That's Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn't me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair's character] she didn't forget.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

When you start getting into your politics it's like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it's always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you're taking. You're not telling people to think, you're telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.

You don't mow another man's lawn!

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.

I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner

I just plug in and let go.

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.

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot!" It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, "Absolutely!"

You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.

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

I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not.

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

We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.

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.

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.

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

I just open my mouth and out it comes.

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

The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.

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.

With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.

My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it.

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?

We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.

There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff.

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

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

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

The musical is amazing. i mean,i don't throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009

When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.

Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

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.

Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

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

Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)

We've been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.

She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

I'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!

I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.

In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.

This never gets old, and when it does, I'll go do a movie. I like the fact that I can get into other projects because everything feels fresh when I come back to music.

I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

It's not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It's a music language that's unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.

The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.

When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."

I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock 'n' roll bad together. I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I'm a pretty klutzy parent.