Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor who is best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter, and guitarist of the punk rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and provides lead vocals for Green Day's side projects Foxboro Hot Tubs and The Network...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth17 February 1972
CityOakland, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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?
I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
The darkness is coming now god dammit!
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.
Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
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!
I just open my mouth and out it comes.
You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.
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.
You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem.