I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGSome 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 ARMSTRONGNobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIt’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 ARMSTRONGMoshing and broken glass just don’t go together.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIf you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGIf I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGFor some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGI’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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 ARMSTRONGWe pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWhen we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, “This song [“Ordinary World”] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio].”
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGNever run in the rain with your socks on.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGYou’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThe 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 ARMSTRONGThe bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG