Billie: There is not a band you can mention that we haven’t kicked their ass at one time or another.
Billie: I thought it was kinda lame. The story was great. Totally hilarious. But it was too much. Kinda like turning us into a parody of ourselves.
Billie: Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
Billie: I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
Billie: I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!
Billie: Never run in the rain with your socks on.
Billie: 'Welcome to Montreal-- **** you', would be a good sign at your highways.
Billie: This song's off our album. It's called Kerplunk. It's kind of in line with the **** thing, ya know, it's like you take a dookie and it kerplunks in the toilet.
Billie: I ****ing hate Lynyrd Skynyrd, I've always hated Lynyrd Skynyrd. ****in' backwards ass hillbilly ****.
Billie: I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
Billie: You're the ****ing leaders, you have the power. Don't let these bastards dictate the rest of the world, or dictate you ****ng life!
Billie: I'm not gonna say anything inspirational; I'm just gonna ****ing swear a lot.
Billie: What? You can heckle me if you want, it's okay I won't understand!
Billie:[Asked: What's one of the secrets to keeping the band together?] "Circle massage... we like to massage each other."
BILLIE:"With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!"
BILLIE:"If I'm into something I have to make sure it gets done. If I do drugs, I make sure that pile of fucking speed is done before the night is over."
Billie:"Take Armatage Shanks, for example. When I wrote that song, it was right before Dookie came out, and I was really at odds with myself. I was like, man, do I really want to do this? A lot of the time I was thinking about suicide, how it's so easy to kill yourself, but so hard to stay alive. I was in a break-up with my then-girlfriend, a total, raving punk rocker who didn't approve of me being on a major label. She moved down to Ecuador, saying she couldn't live in a world with McDonald's and such. It was fucking me up pretty bad."
Billie:"Mike wrote 'Longview' sitting on the floor, on LSD."
Billie:"I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football. I don't think there's an NFL player that honestly couldn't say I would look really good wearing silver and black. Even when Jerry Rice came over, he just looked good. There was a sense of pride about him. It was like, 'Fuck yeah, I'm wearing the silver and black'."
Billie:[When asked in 1992 where they would be in 3 years] "I’m going to point a gun at Tre. Tre is going to point a gun at Mike. Mike is going to point a gun at me." (Mike: "We’re going to count to 3 and pull the trigger.")
Billie:"Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God."
Billie:[On participating on Tony Hawk video game] "For somebody who doesn't know how to skateboard, I'm going to be ripping it up."
Billie: My mom was from Oklahoma, hence the name Billie Joe...It's not William Joseph it's just Billie Joe
Billie Joe doesn't like Eminem.
Billie uses Jhirmack Styling Spritz to get his hair good and crunchy.
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.
In the song "Sick Of Me" on Shenanigans, right before billie joe says "Like a dog...." you can hear a "squishy" noise
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.
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 played "Ghostly Betting Man" on the show Haunted in 2002. The episode is named "Simon Redux." It has never aired in the USA.
In sessions at AOL, on the exclusive interview with Green Day, they misspell Billie Joe's name. They spell it Billy Joe.
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.
In the second grade two girls beat up Billie Joe so that he would date them.
When Billie was younger he put 409 in his teacher's coffee.
Billie Joe's cat, Zero, died in his washing machine.
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 received his first guitar, a Fernandes Stratocaster copy named "Blue", when he was ten from his father before he died.
Billie still plays with Pinhead Gunpowder. He has also played with The Influents, Corrupted Morals, Rancid, The Lookouts, Goodbye Harry, and Blatz.
When he married Adrienne Nesser the ceremony was only five minutes long.
Billie Joe is of English and Italian descent (his father), and Scottish, Dutch, Irish and Cherokee ancestry (his mother).
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: When I play, I'm not a nice guy. You know when you get really drunk and it's like this person inside you that wants to come out and be obnoxious? It's kind of the same thing. And then people like you for it. I don't get that.
Billie: You might start to believe what the media is saying and become, like, a parody of yourself.
Billie: Hey, I said pick them back up. Thank you for your cooperation.
Billie: That's a big guy... much bigger than me... but I'm working on it.
Billie: That's a fat dude man... it's like WHOA WATCH OUT!
Billie: I always write, but this time I kept writing. It's like cleaning your kitchen every day.
Billie: Throw mud at each other... see how many stupid things you can do to each other all at one time.
Billie: I'm the greatest guitar player in the world! I can play ****ing Heavy Metal god dammit!
Billie: Yeah she sometimes gets mad. She's quite territorial about me in that way, and I'm the same with her.
Billie: Now you sound like you're ****ing ready!
Billie: Here comes the big sexual **** part. This is where you learn to **** kids, alright?
Billie: I'm running for Mayor of ****ing Vancouver God Dammit. When all drugs, ALL drugs will be legalized. Teenage sex will be rampant round the ****ing city, and there will be a free six pack of beer delivered to your fridge every single god damn morning!
Billie's cat died in the washing machine.
Billie is a vegetarian.
Billie and Mike met in the cafeteria of their school when they were only 10 years old.
His hair color is reddish brown.
His height is 5'7 (170.18 cm).
In the making of Green Day's American Idiot, a theif stole the master recordings, forcing the band to start from scratch.
Billie used to have a nose ring.
Billie also plays harmonica, mandolin, drums and piano and the saxophone.
He wrote the song "Brain Stew" while trying to get his son, Joseph to go to sleep.
He is the youngest of 6 children.
He also plays the guitar for the band Green Day.
Has also played in bands such as: Blatz, Rancid, the Lookouts, Goodbye Harry, Corrupted Morals, and still plays with Pinhead Gunpowder.
Billie's dad died of cancer when he was only 10 years old.
He married Adrienne Nesser on July 2, 1994.
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