264 Quotes by Billie Joe Armstrong

I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.

I don’t feel any shame I won’t apologize if there ain’t nowhere you can go running away from pain when you’ve been victimized tales from another broken home.

Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn’t mean things aren’t going to change in your own life.

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

A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.

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

I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I’m lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.

To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit.

If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there’s not a frickin camera in your face doesn’t mean you don’t have to look out for each other.