1. Billie Joe is quoted as saying in Sept 2001 while playing at Gilman Street-"We just played the Reading Festival not to long ago, but this is still the biggest place we have ever played"
2. All By Myself, the hidden song on Dookie, was recorded at a party.
3. Tre is the godfather of Billie Joe's kids.
4. The video for Basket Case was filmed in black and white, they added color afterwards.
5. Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong uses surfboard wax in his hair.The rocker says the waterproof gripping aid helps him create his trademark spikey hairdo.He revealed: "I use wax on my hair, it gets rid of my natural afro. But sleep and lack of sleep does it just as well.'Meanwhile, Billie Joe claims if he wasn't in a band he would be a swimming pool cleaner.He explained: "I love what I do. If I wasn't doing this, I dunno what I'd do. I think I might have been a swimming pool cleaner!'(from femalefirst.co.uk)
6. Billie Joe Armstrong refuses live a party lifestyle because he doesn't want to alienate his fans.
The Green Day frontman shuns many of the events he gets invited to as he believes being seen as a hedonistic rock star would ruin his punk credentials.
He said: "Having a normal life is the only way to way to write good songs. If it's a constant champagne party then people can't relate."
7.Billie Joe worked so hard on 21st Century Breakdown, that he almost ended up in hospital.
"We all became sick as dogs. I was close to being hospitalised but they caught me in time. I had the boogie woogie flu."