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"

"There are always young bands playing in their garages. 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."

"Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes."

"I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine."

"I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible."

"Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle."

"When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back."

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

"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."

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