My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGSome 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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
-
-
Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
I’m not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac’s working!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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’m a songwriter-I’m obligated to keep pushing myself.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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 -
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 -
Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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 have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG







