Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

I've seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink-covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside, and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses.

I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

What happens is that the people who are leaders in any field are copied. I mean, there's a reason why every wine newsletter tends to look like mine. They see someone who's been successful, so they sort of copy these same ideas.

I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.

You know how Hollywood is: They just follow suit.

I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.

I don't get all these pop stars who sit on the fence when they're asked for an opinion. People are scared of speaking out. They're too worried about the consequences - like they might lose a few fans if they give a serious opinion.

Imitation is flattery. There was once a survey of who was the most imitated celebrity in Latin American countries, especially in Brazil and Argentina, and I was in third place after Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.

It's cool for young guys to see what their idols are doing.

Trends die. That's the natural thing about a trend. It's natural for people to be followers and be sheep and go with a trend.

It irritates me to see people aping superstars.

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful.

Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless.

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

The expression "following suit" is a curious one, because it has nothing to do with walking behind a matching set of clothing. If you follow suit, it means you do the same thing somebody else has just done. If all of your friends decided to jump off a bridge into the icy waters of an ocean or river, for instance, and you jumped in right after them, you would be following suit. You can see why following suit can be a dangerous thing to do, because you could end up drowning simply because somebody else thought of it first.

I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be.

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly. So, yes, divorce is talked about a lot, but it's so much more fun to be able to spin it with dark humour, rather than talk about real people's divorces.

Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life