Our passion is our strength.
Billie Joe Armstrong

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
Billie Joe Armstrong

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

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
Billie Joe Armstrong

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
Billie Joe Armstrong

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.
Billie Joe Armstrong

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.
Billie Joe Armstrong

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
Billie Joe Armstrong

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
Billie Joe Armstrong