Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

It's okay to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one.

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.

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

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!

You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.

If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.

Our passion is our strength

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, but if nobody's pefect why practice?

Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)

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!)

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

Y'know?

To know you is to hate you, so loving you must be like suicide.

It's my fucking life and you know what, nobody invited you...so there's the door...see ya!

I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't'. They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing.

If someone falls down, please pick them back up. Just because there's not a camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for eachother.

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

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time.That's fine.

Our passion is our strength.

School is practise for future life,practise makes perfect, nobody's perfect so why practise?

I think I've always been bisexual. I mean, it's something that I've always been interested in. I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't.' They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing.

L'esercizio rende perfetti, ma nessuno è perfetto, quindi perché esercitarsi?

Remember, do the things that you fucking believe in, alright? This is what it's all about right now. [MTV Awards 2005]

Ladies, if someone touches you and you don't want them to, feel free to punch them in the fucking face!

It's ok to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one.

Every single line that you write, you hang on every single word, and you hang on every single moment.

[I]t is something that comes up as a struggle in me. It especially came up when I was about 16 or 17. In high school people think you have to be so macho. People get attacked just because someone insinuates something about their sexuality. I think that’s gruesome.

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today

Don't sweat the small stuff. It's good to let chaos take over and know in your heart that everything will be alright eventually." -Billie Joe Armstrong

We put the fun in dysfunctional.

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

Y'know, when I first started listening to punk rock music, I used to get my fucking ass kicked for it! I was known as a fucking freak! But now I'm amongst many many many freaks here with me tonight! - Billie Joe Armstrong,Stay The Night, Reading Festival 2013

Punk is not just the sound, the music, punk is a lifestyle.