Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

In our private lives, we hate saying sorry. I would rather saute my eyeballs in butter than admit I am wrong to my husband.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

I'm nobody, who are you?

I was quite a different child, I felt isolated. In time, that level of being with yourself crystallises who you are, and you can see what other people are without being blinded by what they want from you.

But I was a sensitive kid. A funny kid, and a perceptive one. There was a lot of time spent alone.

So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever.

To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize.

Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

Whoever can weep over himself for one hour is greater than the one who is able to teach the whole world; whoever recognizes the depth of his own frailty is greater than the one who sees visions of angels.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

I don't know how to be a friend. I don't know how to be anything.

I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.

No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down.

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."

Always keep your words soft and sweet. You never know when you'll have to eat them. Always remember, as you go out to seek your fortune, your fame, your fulfillment, always remember that it's not who you know in this world, it's whom.