Billie Joe Armstrong
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.Collection: Song
My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.Collection: Fun
I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.Collection: Hate
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!)Collection: Autumn
I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.Collection: Idiot
Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.Collection: Lightning
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It's the worst name in the worldCollection: Thinking
No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.Collection: Sacrifice
It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.Collection: Memories
Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.Collection: God
The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He's having a mid-life moment, and it's a small moment, really. 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.Collection: Daughter
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!Collection: Garbage Cans
Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.Collection: Song
You don't mow another man's lawn!Collection: Men
The darkness is coming now god dammit!Collection: Darkness
Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)Collection: Jesus
We've been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot... we've done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody ... do everything you f - -n' believe in, because this is what it's all about.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Pride
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.Collection: Fun
I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.Collection: Song
I just open my mouth and out it comes.Collection: Mouths
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.Collection: Son
If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.Collection: Rooms
I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything elseCollection: Rocks
With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.Collection: Son
Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.Collection: Kids
I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.Collection: Song
I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it's civil rights. It doesn't get any better here in Berkeley I'll tell you that.Collection: Girl
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.Collection: Green
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!Collection: Dream
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.Collection: Together
We put the fun back into dysfunctional.Collection: Fun
Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.Collection: Fun
Punk is dead to anyone who didn’t get it in the first place.Collection: Firsts