110+ Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes On Creative, Energetic And Passionate

Billie Joe Armstrong is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter, and guitarist of the punk rock band Green Day. Armstrong is also a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and provides lead vocals for Green Day-branded projects Foxboro Hot Tubs and The Network. He is also known for his work with the musical duo The Longshot and as an actor in films such as "Like Sunday, Like Rain". Following is our collection on famous quotes by Billie Joe Armstrong on life, creative, energetic.

Top 10 Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

1. Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
2. A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.
3. ‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
4. It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.
5. I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!
6. Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.
7. They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
8. When all else fails...be a rockstar
9. When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
10. Never run in the rain with your socks on.

Billie Joe Armstrong Short Quotes

• Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
• I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
• Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
• You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
• I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
• I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea
• I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
• History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
• If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.
• We've been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.

Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes About Life

Every night I play as if my life depends on it. — Billie Joe Armstrong

We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know! — Billie Joe Armstrong

Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it. — Billie Joe Armstrong

It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras. — Billie Joe Armstrong

It's not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It's a music language that's unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Billie Joe Armstrong Famous Quotes And Sayings

Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time. — 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

And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that. — Billie Joe Armstrong

A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know? — Billie Joe Armstrong

It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV. — 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

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background. — Billie Joe Armstrong

My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that. — Billie Joe Armstrong

We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible. — 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

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down. — 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

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else — 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

You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun. — Billie Joe Armstrong

My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor. — Billie Joe Armstrong

We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them. — Billie Joe Armstrong

The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too. — Billie Joe Armstrong

When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner — Billie Joe Armstrong

With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me! — Billie Joe Armstrong

We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important. — Billie Joe Armstrong

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable. — Billie Joe Armstrong

As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot!" It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, "Absolutely!" — Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers! — Billie Joe Armstrong

The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He's having a mid-life moment, and it's a small moment, really. I think that the character actually really loves where he's at, in his life. He's just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it. — Billie Joe Armstrong

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age. — Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't go voicing something if it's just not right. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm always a work in progress. — Billie Joe Armstrong

There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I like to keep my girlish figure — Billie Joe Armstrong

We put the fun back into dysfunctional — Billie Joe Armstrong

Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke. — 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

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself. — Billie Joe Armstrong

That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal. — Billie Joe Armstrong

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

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

Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball. — Billie Joe Armstrong

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

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere. — Billie Joe Armstrong

The darkness is coming now god dammit! — Billie Joe Armstrong

With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong

If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I'm sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned. — Billie Joe Armstrong

The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point. — Billie Joe Armstrong

No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices. — Billie Joe Armstrong

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record. — Billie Joe Armstrong

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

One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak. — Billie Joe Armstrong

We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens. — Billie Joe Armstrong

That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock 'n' roll bad together. I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I'm a pretty klutzy parent. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity. — Billie Joe Armstrong

You don't mow another man's lawn! — Billie Joe Armstrong

Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules. — Billie Joe Armstrong

We've been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot... we've done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody ... do everything you f - -n' believe in, because this is what it's all about. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place — Billie Joe Armstrong

I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It's the worst name in the world — Billie Joe Armstrong

To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit — Billie Joe Armstrong

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. — Billie Joe Armstrong

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin — Billie Joe Armstrong

What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it. — Billie Joe Armstrong

In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home. — Billie Joe Armstrong

One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Life Lessons by Billie Joe Armstrong

1. Billie Joe Armstrong has taught us to stay true to ourselves and our passions, no matter how unconventional they may be. He has also shown us that hard work and dedication can lead to success, as he has achieved great success in the music industry. Lastly, he has demonstrated the importance of collaboration and support, as he has worked with many other artists to create amazing music.