Billie Joe Armstrong citations

“A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!”

“Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.”

“Digo, hey-oh. Let´s Go.””

“I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.”

“We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.”

“We 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”

“Courage is hard. You have to be willing to take it on the chin if you get things wrong. Now I have clarity in my own life I’m able to focus…”

“What do you mean we walked around dressed like girls? We walked around in our own clothes they just happened to be dresses.”

“I guess that’s my biggest fear for this band. I worry that if it stops, it’s going to break down and end up in the junkyard. You can hear it with some bands, man, and you can tell when they haven’t been playing together because they’re too busy resting on their laurels. Most of the time, those bands are the ones that end up losing it.”

“Being in a band is a lot like having a classic car. You have to constantly tune it and care for it, because if you don’t then it’s going to rust and fall apart.”

“I remember getting ready to do 'American Idiot' thinking that people were either going to call us brilliant or crazy for doing it and I think maybe we got a little bit of both in the reaction. With any album, you put in the best you can and you dig further than ever before and then you put it out never really knowing what will happen…”

“I’ve always believed in our records and I think around ‘Warning’ we hit our smallest core fanbase, but it was still a big audience and we were never unhappy with that.”

“This song is called American Idiot! It's about me.”

“Our passion is our strength.
I dreamed that I pissed in my suitcase one time, I woke up in the morning and uh I had urine inside my suitcase.”

“There's nothing wrong with being a loser. It just depends how good you are at it.”

“Never run in the rain with your socks on.”

“I hate celebrities. I really hate them.”

“Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.”

“Are you Canadian? Oh, okay, 'cause you're sure as hell acting like one right now.”

“After a year being off the road it got pretty hard, I started to get pretty low as I wanted that drug back, I wanted that connection back.”

“After a while I started to realise that it is my passion to play live for people and it is on all levels - from a club show to playing at Milton Keynes, or something like that. It’s a thing that we love to do and I’m addicted to the adrenaline of it”

“Whenever you write a record you run the risk of your ideas not appealing to certain sections of society, but there’s something about the energy we have that people get into and that’s never changed. There’s a lot more to punk rock than just a catchy song, it’s a deeper thing about community and connection - and I think we’re still part of that.”

“I have been in Green Day for most of my life, we have been doing this since I was 16 years old, and I just love how this band has evolved from a bunch of 'slackers' to one of the most socially conscious bands out there. It is pretty groovy to see how things have changed and yet it has all been a very natural process for us.”

“We need to keep working because we need to make sure that we’re firing on all cylinders.”

“Ladies have a bad taste in men. I'm not that good looking.”