A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

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.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

If Britney would paint her ass green, I'm sure you could spot green asses all over LA as soon as the word was out.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

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.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

Our passion is our strength.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote

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.
- Billie Joe Armstrong Quote