black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I 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 Armstrong

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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Emotional Gutters Song
You’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 ARMSTRONG

Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
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

Different Parent Unique
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Able Important Together
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

Balance Musician Parent
If 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 ARMSTRONG

Ligfe Magazines Next Poeple
I 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 ARMSTRONG

Majority Sick Thinking
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

Deeper Obviously Songs
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

Autumn Wind Winter
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Happiness Happy Humans Really
I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

People Song Writing
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

Clubs Down Mentally Rocks
There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Mean Money Some Successful Teacher
I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I’m a pretty klutzy parent.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Character Especially Parent Pretty
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

Broadway Directors Hbo Writer
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Anything Better Making Mistakes
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

Half Realized Song
I 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 ARMSTRONG

Character Nuts Ordinary Party World
I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Prozac Used Working
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

Humble Mean Talking
I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Careers Ideas Possibly
That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Musicians Rock Music Rocks
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

Anything Heart Mistake Successful
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

Fighting Kids Sleep
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.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Drunk Someone Thinking Time
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Right Something Voicing
With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Age Pass Roots Thinking

I 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes