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'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.
Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
I wrote a song called 'Green Day' because I was smoking a lot of dope.
Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place
I'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!
I'm always a work in progress.
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.
And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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.
When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old. I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That's every 20-year-old's dream - to do whatever the hell you want.
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?