Billie Joe Armstrong's Quotes

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.

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?

I'm very monogamous.

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

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.

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.

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

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

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.

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.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

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.

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.

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.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?