Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

When you're going over periods of your life, you remember certain things, certain events, certain people that you've forgotten. You've forgotten certain lessons or people you were very close to, and then you haven't seen them in a while. I think if you can go through life with the correct regrets, then looking back on it, like I did, a certain portion of my life is pretty enjoyable. All my regrets are ones that I'd like to keep.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know when and if one's identity ever does catch up with one's actual age. Personally I feel like I just got the hang of thirty-five.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

I've gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it's, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you're having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older.

I wouldn't be back in my 20s for anything.

I feel like I've lived two or three completely different lives. At 33, I'm quite reflective and have the perspective you get in your old age when you have been through the losses of life.

It's so crazy to meet people you've known about since you were many feet shorter than you are now.

It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.