Top 185 Quotes & Sayings by Billie Joe Armstrong - Page 2

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

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

When all else fails...be a rockstar

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.

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.

Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem.

The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.

People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.

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

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.

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.

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

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

Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.

Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin

I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.

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.

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

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.

Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.

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.

I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!

We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.

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

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

We put the fun back into dysfunctional

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?

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.

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.

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!

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

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.

You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.

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

I'm always a work in progress.

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.

Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.

My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.

Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place

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.

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.

I like to keep my girlish figure

I wrote a song called "Green Day" because I was smoking a lot of dope.

Never run in the rain with your socks on.

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.

Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.

Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.

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.

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.

No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

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.

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!

You don't get nothing and like it.

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

It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.

I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It's the worst name in the world

The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He's having a mid-life moment, and it's a small moment, really. I think that the character actually really loves where he's at, in his life. He's just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.

Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.