Joe Armstrong Quotes

Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.

The musical is amazing. i mean,i don't throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009

Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

We've been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.

History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.

Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.

When I grew up music was something I did on the side - I played sports, I went to school - and so music was always there, and I was really fortunate to have that, but so were so many other things.

No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.

With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.

I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner

To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.

The temptation to add features to a program must be resisted as strongly as possible. This requires the dedication of a saint

I'm always a work in progress.

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.

One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.

That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

I just plug in and let go.

I'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."

This never gets old, and when it does, I'll go do a movie. I like the fact that I can get into other projects because everything feels fresh when I come back to music.

The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.

I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.

In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.

I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.

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