Billie Joe Armstrong

Billie Joe was in the newspaper as a kid after he he recorded "Look for Love".

Billie Joe use to be a vegetarian but he he gave up because he was losing too much weight.

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 different parts called Frankenstein.

On the "1,000 Hours" record they spell Billie's name as "Billy".

Billie Joe when talking about future plans said he would become a soccer team coach.

The first album Billie Joe bought was 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.

Billie Joe likes to take books on tour.

In early 2001 Billie Joe was mugged at gunpoint and is now terrified of guns.

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.

It's an old tradition of Billie's that at every one of his concerts he kisses a guy.

For the video for the Green Day song, "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.

The first time Billie Joe kissed his wife, Adrienne, he went home and wrote the song "2,000 Light Years Away".

In the second grade two girls beat up Billie Joe so that he would date them.

Billie Joe's mother spelled his name wrong on his birth certificate because she was unstable due to the large amounts of painkillers in her body to ease childbirth.

Billie Joe's cat, Zero, died in his washing machine.

Billie drives a blue 67 Ford Fairlane.

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 Joe used to have a nose ring, but he took it out because it got caught on his shirt.

During his stay in school, he was nicknamed "Two Dollar Bill", because he was supplying the school with joints for two dollars.

Billie still plays with Pinhead Gunpowder. He has also played with The Influents, Corrupted Morals, Rancid, The Lookouts, Goodbye Harry, and Blatz.

Bille can play the guitar, the harmonica, the drums, the piano, the mandolin and the saxophone.

Billie met Mike Dirnt, Green Day's bass player and backup singer, in the school cafeteria in 1982.

Billie Joe is of English and Italian descent (his father), and Scottish, Dutch, Irish and Cherokee ancestry (his mother).

Billie is a hidden character in the game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.

Billie Joe does not like fast food.

Billie's uncle was killed in the Vietnam War. He was shot while parachuting from a plane.

Billie was a registered member of Poetry.com under the name of
"B Armstrong".

Billie is the only member of Green Day that uses his actual name.

Billie and his wife, Adrienne, are the co-owners of Adeline Records.

His height is 5'7 (170.18 cm).

In the making of Green Day's American Idiot, a thief stole the master recordings, forcing the band to start from scratch.

Billie wears Jockey underwear.

Billie was arrested for drunk driving on January 2003.

He said that he was bisexual in an interview in "The Advocate" on January 24, 1995.

He wrote the song "Brain Stew" while trying to get his son, Joseph to go to sleep.

His father gave him a guitar right before he died. Billie named his guitar "Blue".

Billie wrote the song "Wake Me Up When September Ends" about his father's death when he was a young child and how he dealt with it then and deals with it now. The song appears in the album American Idiot released in 2004.

He enjoys getting people up on stage at Green Day's live concerts, to play instruments with the band.

He married Adrienne Nesser on July 2, 1994. Their wedding ceremony was only 5 minutes long.