Billie Joe Armstrong

Our passion is our strength.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.