Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive.

Punk rock and straight edge will always be married together. As far as me integrating that with wrestling, I learned a lot from punk rock.

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

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

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.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.