Quotes by Billie Joe Armstrong

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.