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 don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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!?
One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
We've been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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.