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.

I love storytelling.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

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

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

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

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.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

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