Billie Joe Armstrong

Billie: Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, your kidding yourself and your listener.

Billie: I'm the greatest guitar player in the world! I can play ****ing Heavy Metal god dammit!

Billie: I'm just the same idiot from Rodeo, CA that I was before Dookie came out. So if you see me in the street, come by and say hi. I guarantee you I'll say hi back.

Billie: We [Green Day] can play anywhere at anytime.

Billie: One day we'll [Green Day] either get kicked in the face, or get handed a big gold record. Either way it's going to be really shocking.

Billie: There is not a band you can mention that we haven't kicked their ass at one time or another.

Billie: History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.

Billie: Do I want to change the world with music? Well heck yeah I want to change the world to a certain extent yeah. It needs to be changed....it needs a kick in the ass.

Billie: Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

Billie: Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

Billie: I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.

Billie: I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade.

Billie: I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!

Billie: Never run in the rain with your socks on.

Billie: I ****ing hate Lynyrd Skynyrd, I've always hated Lynard Skynard. ****in' backwards ass hillbilly ****.

Billie: B-I-L-L-I-E J-O-E. My real name is Billie Joe. And it's southern, my moms from Oklahoma and that's how I got the name. It's not William Joseph it's just Billie Joe.

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

Billie: 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.

Billie: It's fun until someone gets hurt... then it's hilarious.

Billie: I'm not gonna say anything inspirational; I'm just gonna ****ing swear a lot.

Billie: There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

Billie: (when asked what is the secret to keeping his band, Green Day, together) Circle massage... we like to massage each other.

Billie: With the video for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time... like me!

Billie: What do you mean we walked around dressed like girls? They were our own clothes, they just happened to be dresses.

Billie: If I'm into something I have to make sure it gets done. If I do drugs, I make sure that pile of ****ing speed is done before the night is over.

Billie (On Green Day fanfiction): Tre [Cool] reads the dirty ones. I've read a few. It's flattering and sort of weird at the same time. I don't really know what to think about young girls thinking about old men like that. But the ones I have read were very well-written and as long as kids these days are still being creative and writing, then I think it's cool.

Billie (When asked in 1992 where they [Green Day] would be in 3 years): I'm going to point a gun at Tre. Tre is going to point a gun at Mike. Mike is going to point a gun at me. We're gonna count to three and pull the trigger.

Billie: School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, and nobodies perfect, so why practice?

Billie: Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I am a God.

Billie: I want someone to rob a bank in the name of Green Day. I want them to make masks of our faces and rob a freaken' bank.