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
Billie Joe Armstrong quotes about
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.
A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
I'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!
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
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.
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
You don't mow another man's lawn!
Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
You don't get nothing and like it.
I just plug in and let go.
I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry's [in That's Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn't me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair's character] she didn't forget.
I'm always a work in progress.