Billie Armstrong Quotations

We've been a band around now for the last 16 years 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,

We're here to share music and good times with our fans,

I didn't graduate from any of them (Colleges) and look at me now mom!

If it didn't work out, one thing we did know was that we could at least look back on it as a really meaningful part of our career,

We've been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot.

We met Mr. Scrappy, we saw the boys in Good Charlotte we've seen a lot of gold teeth.

I think we've just grown up. People have watched us grow through the years and watched us evolve. . . . It's just been a crazy musical trip, especially for people who go back a long time ago and remain faithful to the band.

People are here to have a good time, when it gets down to it.

Rock 'n' roll can be dangerous and fun at the same time, so thanks a lot.

My name is Bush.......you can call me a**hole.

I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade.

We're always into that. It breaks down the wall between the band and the audience. It's a dream come true for the people who get onstage, but also for the people who watch it because they're seeing somebody who is one of their own. Sometimes it turns out great, sometimes it's a complete disaster. But even when it sounds bad, it's sometimes even better because there's a certain charm to it.

We were watching things unfold, surrounded by all that was going on in the news and pop culture. I wanted to say the most controversial (things) I could while still keeping the songs smart and articulate. And there's a sense of humor there, which makes it more inviting than if I were just pointing fingers.

We don't really have a fair system, our social system doesn't work if you're poor in the US you're dirt poor and the distribution of wealth is more than uneven. If you're poor and you get sick you have no health insurance, no financial security, nothing. if that could be changed I wouldn't mind paying more tax, but I mind my taxes being spent on wars!

Are you a canadian? Oh, cause your sure as heck acting like one!

There's nothing wrong with being a loser,it just depends on how good you are at it

I've been married for 11 years. When you have children, the picture changes all of a sudden, you become protective. It's an instinct, your anger: you almost act out mentally in a violent way to protect the things that mean most to you.

The whole point of making a record was just to be maximum Green Day, just to sort of create our own culture, our own lifestyle. And when that starts to leak over into the mainstream, for me it's really exciting, because you honestly feel like you're contributing something.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a life-style I chose for myself.

You say it to my face, you might be pickin' yourself off the ground

A lot of rock bands had to step up to the plate and create a stronger message. That's the reason that hip-hop is so dominating, is that there's a true message behind what they're doing.

They have bad taste. I'm not a good looking guy.

This kind of response, I don't know, it's like you're at the biggest party in the United States right now and the song that gets most nominated and most celebrated is the biggest hangover.

The most dramatic entrance for an autograph was probably when I was in Edmonton Alberta Canada or... whatever, and she jumped on my back and asked for the autograph. She was so cool and she said she wanted to be in a band... Well, whoever that was, I totally support you!

It's a concert film based around the first stadium gigs we've ever played and kind of what it takes to go into it,

It's about a kid that is trying to find his beliefs and his ethics, coming from a broken home, being fed up with his hometown and his local 7-11.

It's an honor to be here because it's an honor. I think I need some eyeliner.

It's unavoidable. Being in the United States right now, what's been going on the past couple of years ...

It's the new 'Thriller,' ... 'Jesus of Suburbia' is really a long song, so already it's quite a task. You can't think of it as making a video, but a short film, and that's what Sam did. There's dialogue. It follows the story of the song more so than the other videos from American Idiot.

It's great to know that rock music still has a place on MTV,

It's great to know that rock music still has a place at MTV,

It's great to know rock music still has a place on MTV,

Don't believe everything you see on television, and stick it to the man.

It's nice to know that rock music still has a place on MTV.

It's nice to know rock music still has a place at MTV,

It's challenging your own fear to really start to get into things. To walk off this planet, I want to say something or know I had something in my career that wasn't just fluff, something that's powerful and meaningful.

It was a crazy year, but it's been the best year of our career. It's going to be kind of sad for it to end, but, you know, we don't have any regrets.

I just want to acknowledge that pop radio playing rock music is a very big deal to me, so thank you very much.

I fully promote and love watching Tre Cool be the best rock drummer of all time.

If you're wondering if I'm nervous right now you're absolutely right.

All great rock bands have a little dirt in their faces.

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 trend!'