I’m always a work in progress.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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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.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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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.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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I’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.
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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.
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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.
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What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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