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 sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It's the worst name in the world
And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot!" It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, "Absolutely!"
The darkness is coming now god dammit!