Billie Joe Armstrong

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit. ”

Our passion is our strength. ”

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. ”