#green day interview

[gloria-viva-la-gloria]

"You know, the fact that I got up and was able to do this so early in the morning to come to your show is, like, it feels good right now. That's an accomplishment for me."

- Billie Joe Armstrong (The Howard Stern Show, 1/18/24)

[allamerican-cocksucker]

Billie: People are always expecting me to be rude to them. People are always expecting me to like, take off my pants in front of them.... Everyone's always got their guard up against me.

Interviewer: but you created that, surely you have to take responsibility for people seeing you that way.

Billie: Well yeah, but people don't have to be stupid enough to totally digest all of that.

Mike: Don't believe everything you see on tv. As for a live show, music does things to people.

Interviewer: I guess that's a function of our culture too. That you get a snapshot of someone and then you make the whole person about that one image.

Billie: Yeah, I mean there's different sides of the coin. It's not always tails.

Green Day interview August 10th, 1995 with Much Music ×

[97skid]

[greendaygiggles]

What? Did you think he was kidding? (x)

[sttrillie]

[mrwrightcool]

“I think the real irony is that for years and years, when people think of us, they think our heavy guitars and the sounds that we've had on our records. But we've written most of our songs on acoustic guitar. When we wake up in the middle of the night to write a song, Billie doesn't run to his amp and plug in his guitar, he picks up an acoustic guitar and starts jamming on it. And you can play an acoustic guitar like an electric guitar, you know, i.e., Pete Townshend. It could rock, you know.”

— Mike Dirnt (LAUNCH Magazine)

[thisisjoy]

BBC Trilogy Interview - summer 2012

[billiejoeshappytrail]

I will literally never stop laughing at;

“So you’re the only one who has an album named after you?” “Yeah.. Uno Dos Mike sounded stupid”