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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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

“Ladies, if someone touches you and you don't want them to, feel free to punch them in the fucking face!”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“Y'know, when I first started listening to punk rock music, I used to get my fucking ass kicked for it! I was known as a fucking freak! But now I'm amongst many many many freaks here with me tonight!
- Billie Joe Armstrong,Stay The Night, Reading Festival 2013”
― Green Day

“Don't sweat the small stuff. It's good to let chaos take over and know in your heart that everything will be alright eventually." -Billie Joe Armstrong”
― Billie Joe Armstrong