Top 51 Quotes by Billie Joe Armstrong

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

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

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.

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.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.