I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
-
-
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
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 -
I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
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 -
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
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