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
We've been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world
My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying 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!
That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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.
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
You don't mow another man's lawn!
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.