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
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it's civil rights. It doesn't get any better here in Berkeley I'll tell you that.
A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!
If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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.
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.
That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.