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
The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.
That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.
We've been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
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.
I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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.
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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.