264 Quotes by Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.

I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.