Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGRock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI hate celebrities. I really hate them.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe’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 ARMSTRONGI don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGFor some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMy brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGMusic to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGPeople are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThat’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 ARMSTRONGIf you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGA lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGAlways move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG