Billie Joe Armstrong

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.

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.

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

There are always young bands playing in their garages. 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.

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.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

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.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

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.

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.