When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old. I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That’s every 20-year-old’s dream – to do whatever the hell you want. Billie Joe Armstrong Read Quote
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. Billie Joe Armstrong Read Quote
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. Billie Joe Armstrong Read Quote
I’ve been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. Billie Joe Armstrong Read Quote
And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics. Billie Joe Armstrong Read Quote
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’. Billie Joe Armstrong Read Quote
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. Billie Joe Armstrong Read Quote
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions. Billie Joe Armstrong Read Quote
