Billie Joe Armstrong

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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and 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.

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

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

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.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

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.