Billie was born on Feb. 17, 1972 and was the youngest of six children. His dad was a truck driver and played drums in a jazz band. Sadly, he died of cancer when Billie was only ten years old. His mother was a waitress at Rod's Hicory Pit and took her husbands death very hard.

Billie began singing when he was young, 5 to be exact, in hospitals to cheer patients up. He also recored the song "Looking for Love". The first record Billie bought was Elvis Presly's "The Sun Sessions". His friends got him to listen to punk music and he was soon hooked on punk bands. He wrote his first song "Why Do You Want Him" when he was only 12 years old (on 1039/Smoothed).

In March of 1995 she gave birth to Joseph Marcicano Armstrong. They had a second child, Jakob Danger Armstrong. Billie is co-owner of the record label Adeline Records. Adeline is home to the Criminals, One Man Army, AFI, and BJ's other band, Pinhead Gunpowder.

He has played in bands and produced for bands as well, most notably Pinhead Gunpowder, with whom he has recorded some records. In July of 1994 Billie married his long time girlfriend Adrienne Nesser. The ceremony lasted only five minutes and they both drank before hand to calm their nerves. The day after the marriage, they discovered that Adrienne was pregnant.

Billie Joe writes most of the lyrics in all the Green Day albums, but Mike and *Tre have written a few themselves (J.A.R., Eminus Sleepus-Mike, Dominated Love Slave-Tre). The song 'Misery' on 'Warning' was written by the whole band. The whole band writes all the music.

*Tre has written and sang a song called 'Suck my Dick Until Your Lips Fall Off', but it is not on any of the Green Day CD's. Its kind of a joke on country music I think.