“A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Reported in Matt Doeden, Green Day: Keeping Their Edge‎ (2006), p. 23

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