Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice."

I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

I think, fundamentally, the core of everything I do is punk rock.

I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an idea, and I was like, 'Don't ever not be punk. Don't ever not be punk.' Telling that to myself, I guess it was like self-defense against the scary world around me.

It's like our little thing: you can take the girl out of the punk, but you can't take the punk out of the girl.

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn't care.

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.