“You make these decisions – well, you can stay in your comfort zone or you can try doing this song…”<\/p>\n
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong has opened up about his experience writing and performing monster hit ‘Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)’ for the first time.<\/p>\n
Billie was a guest on this week’s ‘Beyond + Back’ podcast, hosted by Krissy Teegerstrom, which features artists talking about their creative processes.<\/p>\n
While talking about taking creative risks, the frontman recounted one story about how nervous he was getting ready to perform the acoustic track while on tour:<\/p>\n
“I had no intention of starting any kind of acoustic thing with Green Day, and I just wrote it, it was just sort of, like, from the heart to the four-track…You make these decisions – well, you can stay in your comfort zone or you can try doing this song…just put it out there and see what happens. So, I remember the first time I ever sang it live. We were somewhere on the east coast, we’re on the ‘Nimrod’ tour, and then I was like ‘Ok, I’m gonna sing this song. I’m gonna do it’.” <\/p>\n
After admitting he was scared (“I was like ‘here comes the tomatoes'”), with …read more<\/a> <\/p>\n