Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.