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Full Name: Billie Joe Armstrong

DOB: Feburary 17, 1972

Part in Band: Vocals/ Guitar

Random info: *Wrote the song 'Good Riddance about his ex-girlfriend

*dislikes ashlee simpson

*wrote 'american idiot' bassed on the events of todays world and the bush administration.

*thinks that people should love people for who they are and not what they want them to be

*Billie Joe used to have a nose ring, but he took it out because it kept getting caught on his guitar.
 
*Billie Joe sometimes suffers from panic attacks and aniexty.
 
*Billie wears Jockey underwear.
 
*It has been said that Billie Joe is a registered member of Poetry.com. I've heard his name is B. Armstrong.
 
*At age 15, Billie tried to go to an Operation Ivy concert, but he was refused entry. One of the members of the band heard he wasn't allowed in, so they came out and personally esorted him into the show.
 
*Billie drives a blue 67 Ford Fairlane. Mike drives a BMW, and Tre sports an SUV.
 
*Billie Joe's cat, Zero, died in his washing machine.
 
*Billie's trademark first guitar is named Blue, and was given to him by his father before he died. Blue is now retired, but Billie has several replicas of the guitar.
 
*Billie Joe has been rumored to have been romantically linked to Winona Ryder.
 
*When Billie was younger he put 409 in his teacher's coffee. (409 in Your Coffeemaker)
 
*Billie Joe's nickname in high school was "Two Dollar Bill" because he sold joints for two dollars.
 
*Billie Joe's mother spelled his name wrong on his birth certificate. Not because she was high with illegal drugs, she was loopy because of the massive amounts of painkillers in her body to ease childbirth.
 
*In the second grade two girls beat up Billie Joe so that he would date them.
 
*Billie Joe and Adrienne spent their honeymoon at Berkley's Claremont Hotel, which is a short distance from their house.
 
*The first time Billie Joe kissed Adrienne he went home and wrote 2,000 Light Years Away.
 
*Billie Joe's birthday is on the same day as National Cabbage Day. 

 
*Billie occasionally wears nail polish.
 
*for the video for Jaded, because the lyrics are about being stoned and how you feel when you're stoned. Billie decided to get high while shooting the video just to get the feel for the song.
 
*It's an old tradition of Billie's that at every one of his concerts he kisses a guy.
 
*Billie Joe thinks that Staind's lead singer sounds like Cher.
 
*Billie Joe hates Slipknot. He said that the masks "Are so fucking retarded", and one time, a fan threw some screwed up mask on the stage, and when Billie Joe picked it up he looked in disgust and said, "Were not fucking slipknot, you asshole!"
 
*Billie Joe doesn't like Eminem.
 
*Billie Joe played football for John Swett High School in Crockett, CA.
 
*Billie uses Jhirmack Styling Spritz to get his hair good and crunchy.
 
*Billie has a guitar made with with different parts called Frankenstein.
 
*Billie Joe's brothers that introduced him to "punk" were named Matt and Eric.
 
*On the "1,000 Hours" record they spell Billie's name as "Billy".
 
*Billie's had his blue 67 Ford Fairlane for ages, it's even featured in Christie Road "Standing on my beat up car". When Billie first earned enough money with his music, he had the car primered.
 
*Billie Joe when talking about future plans said he would become a soccer team coach.
 
*The first album Billie Joe bought as Elvis Presley's "The Sun Sessions".
 
*In the song "Sick Of Me" on Shenanigans, right before billie joe says "Like a dog...." you can hear a "squishy" noise

*In the song "Brainstew", right before Billie sings the second verse you can hear him go..... ughhhhhhh
 
*Billie Joe likes to take books on tour.
 
*The electricians tape on Billie Joe's large cutaway on Blue is there because some dude knocked into him at one of their first gigs and he dropped the guitar, causing it to crack from the strap lock down. He then later taped it up.
 
*Billie Joe got expelled from 2 schools.
 
*The BLACK FORK album ROCK FOR LOOT was produced by Billie Joe. Even though in the insert it is spelled Billy Joe.
 
*In early 2001 Billie Joe was mugged at gunpoint and is now terrified of guns.
 
*Billie Joe got body lice while on tour in Germany in Green Day's early days.
 
*Billie Joe said that if he could be any female celebrity, he would be Chrissie Hynde.
 
*Billie Joe was in a documentary called "Mayor of the Sunset Strip" in 2003.
 
*Billie Joe played "Ghostly Betting Man" on the show Haunted in 2002. The episode is named "Simon Redux." It has never aired in the USA.
 
*Billie Joe guest starred on the Howard Stern Radio Show on December 9, 2000



Quotes

"Ashlee, your not punk!" -about ashlee simpson wearing a shirt that read 'punk' across it

"I think we've grown alot through the years, i mean not everyone can be as lucky as we are..." -about the relase of their ninth album, "American Idiot"

"I love being on tour and being on the road and meeting fans and shit like that, but i also get homesick alot"

"can you play my guitar?! who the hell do you think you are of course you cant play My guitar!"

"Are you canadian? Oh, okay, 'cause you're sure as hell acting like one right now."

"All saints are gonna be there? Tre, you might get laid!"

VH1's Behind the Music: "We put the fun back in dysfunctional."

VH1's Behind the Music: "You say it to my face, you might be pickin' yourself off the ground."

"[Our 'Waiting' video] was totally a failure. [MTV] doesn't show any videos anymore. If we had a booty video - if we had, like, McG, with girls shaking their ass in the video -- it would probably get played. Actually, I am just really bitter right now."

"It's fun until someone gets hurt...then it's halarious."

"Punk rock is dead...and I fucking killed it."

"Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life."

"You think your life is tough? Try being a parent!"

"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational; I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot."

"They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy."

"School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, and nobodies perfect, so why practice?"

"I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman."

"There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it."

"I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man."

"I fucking hate Lynyrd Skynyrd, I've always hated Lynyrd Skynyrd. Fuckin' backwards ass hillbilly shit."

"B-I-L-L-I-E J-O-E. My real name is Billie Joe. And it's southern, my moms from Oklahoma and that's how I got the name."

"Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God."

"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!'

"It's my fucking life and you know what nobody invited you...so there's the door...see ya!"

"When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it."

"The darkness is coming now god dammit!"

"My mom was from Oklahoma, hence the name Billie Joe...It's not William Joseph it's just Billie Joe."

"They sound like Tré choking on a hair ball." (Slipknot)

"Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1%, lie about it."

"This song's off our album. It's called Kerplunk. It's kind of in line with the shit thing, ya know, it's like you take a dookie and it kerplunks in the toilet."

"What? You can heckle me if you want, it's okay I won't understand!" (at a foreign concert)

"'Welcome to Montreal-- fuck you', would be a good sign at your highways."

"Ah, if someone falls down, please pick him back up cuz it doesn't mean that there's a fuckin' camera in your face that you don't have to lookout for each other."

"Yeah fuck me! I wish all of you could fuck me!

"A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?"

"Never run in the rain with your socks on."

"I never thought that being obnoxious would get me where I am now."

"Aw, how the fuck are you all doin' tonight?... That's what I fuckin' wanted to hear, goddamnit!"

"I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!"

"I hate celebrities. I really hate them."

"I actually have less friends now than I ever had."

"I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade."

"Our passion is our strength."

"I got body lice in Gremany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid."





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