Billie Joe Armstrong wrote "Wake Me Up When September Ends" about the death of his father, who passed away from cancer in September 1982, when Billie was only 10 years old. Green Day only released the track in 2004.
Billie Joe is agnostic - not a big fan of Jesus.
Billie Joe apparently had plans to become a soccer coach.
His wedding ceremony to Adrienne lasted just five minutes.
In early 2001, Billie was mugged at gunpoint and is now terrified of guns.
Billie Joe hates people who chew loudly.
Billie's cat Zero, died in a freak washing machine accident. R.I.P Zero Armstrong.
Billie uses Jermac Styling Spritz to get his hair good and crunchy.
Apparently his nickname in High School was Two Dollar Bill because he would seel joints for Two Dollars.
He ends all text messages to his wife with the words ‘All my lovin’ as a homage to the Beatles classic.
Apparently his parents named him after Billy Joel.
Billie Joe hates Slipknot. He reckons those masks are "so fucking retarded" and when a fan threw a Slipknot mask on stage once he shouted, "We’re not fucking Slipknot, you asshole!”.
Billie Joe's mother spelled his name wrong on his birth certificate because she was loopy with the massive amounts of painkillers in her body to ease childbirth.
Billie Joe's birthday is on the same day as National Cabbage Day.
As a child, Billie would pretend to be Elvis in the mirror while he sung along to the 1976 album 'The Sun Sessions'.
Billie-Joe recored his first single when he was just five years old.
A short part of the interview about his first single can be heard before the song 'Maria'.
The Single was also recorded in the same place as Dookie.
Before Green Day, singer-guitarist Billie Joe Amrstrong and singer-bassist Mike Dirnt played their first show together under the name Sweet Children at Rod's Hickory Pit in Vallejo, Calif., in 1987. Both Armstrong and Dirnt were just 15 years old at the time.
Billie has a guitar that is made with lots of different parts. It's called Frankenstein.
Billie Joe has been known to suffer from panic attacks and aniexty.
When Billie was fifteen he tried to go to an Operation Ivy concert, but he wasn't let in. One of the members of the band heard about this, so they came out and personally brought him into the show.
The first time that Billie Joe kissed Adrienne he went home and wrote 2,000 Light Years Away.
If Billie could play any movie role in history, then he would choose Austin Powers
Billie Joe used to have a nose ring, but then he took it out as it kept getting caught up on his guitar.
Billie Joe went to Hillcrest Elementry school in Pinole, California
He never graduated from High School
In 3rd grade, these two girls used forced Billie to go out with one of them or they would beat him up
He is, contrary to popular belief, not a vegetarian. He was one in the early ninties, but since he lost a lot of weight and felt weird, he went gave up on it
John never told Billie that he was leaving the band, instead he heard it from a friend. In return, Billie never told John directly that he was being replaced
The album Insomniac is called with that name because Billie Joe didn't sleep at night. Joey cried all night, so Billie would write a lot of songs
One reason there was such a long break between Nimrod and Warning was because Billie Joe was at a rocky point in his marriage and needed to spend time at home
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 (although now a days it's not happening as often)
Billie Joe doesn't like Eminem
Billie played football for John Swett High School in Crockett, CA
Billie Joe likes to take books on tour (his favourite is Catcher In The Rye by J.D.Salinger)
He said that if he could be any female celebrity, he would be Chrissie Hynde
Billie Joe got body lice while on tour in Germany in Green Day's early days
Billie Joe chipped his tooth three days before the making of 'good riddance' throwing t.v.'s out a hotel window
He is an unlockable character in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. You must beat Classic Mode at normal difficulty to unlock him
BJ wrote "BOBD" in Jakob's room
