Billie Joe Armstrong

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.

beauty


Billie Joe Armstrong

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.

change


Billie Joe Armstrong

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.

dad


Billie Joe Armstrong

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

experience


Billie Joe Armstrong

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.

family


Billie Joe Armstrong

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.

family


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.

freedom


Billie Joe Armstrong

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

future


Billie Joe Armstrong

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

future


Billie Joe Armstrong

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

home


Billie Joe Armstrong

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

life


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