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

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

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

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

“Our passion is our strength”
― 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

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

“Y'know?”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

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

“To know you is to hate you, so loving you must be like suicide.”
― Billy 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 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

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi