Billie Joe Armstrong has recently had something of a change of mind. One of his generation’s finest-ever songwriters, the 47-year-old has penned all manner of musical masterpieces in his three-decade career – including several sprawling, epic rock operas through the second half of Green Day’s ongoing lifespan. But now? Well… “I’ve decided that I don’t like long songs,” the frontman reveals today with a knowing chuckle and a twinkle in his eye, “and that’s coming from a band that wrote [the nine-minute-long] Jesus Of Suburbia! I’m like a 16-year-old with ADHD. If I’m listening to other people’s music, I always look at how long the song is. If it’s over three minutes I go, ‘Urgh, pass. I don’t wanna listen to that shit.’” He leans forward, throws up his hands and shouts to com...
