Billie Joe Armstrong > Quotes

“You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“It's okay to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“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

“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

“‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“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

“Our passion is our strength”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“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

“School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, but if nobody's pefect why practice?”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“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!)”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“Dont test me,
Second guess me,
Protest me,
You will DISAPEAR!

(East Jesus of Nowhere)”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“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

“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

“Y'know?”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“It's my fucking life and you know what, nobody invited you...so there's the door...see ya!”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.”
― Tre Cool

“I leave behind this hurricane of f***ing lies”
― Green Day, American Idiot

“If someone falls down, please pick them back up. Just because there's not a camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for eachother.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“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”
― Billie joe Armstrong

“I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time.That's fine.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“Do I want to change the world? To a certain extent yeah. It needs to be changed... it needs a kick up the ass.”
― Green Day

“I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.”
― Tre Cool

“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

“Our passion is our strength.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.”
― Mike Dirnt

“Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.”
― Mike Dirnt

“another turning point, a fork stuck in the road...”
― Green Day