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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Celebrities Hate People
What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
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Deeper Obviously Songs
Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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Just Missionary Position
Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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Beautiful Life Pretty
When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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Drunk Someone Thinking Time
One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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Half Realized Song
I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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Careers Ideas Possibly
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.
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Mainstream Punk Rocks
We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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Broadway Directors Hbo Writer
My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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Band The Goal World
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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Band Hate Stupid
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Lifestyle Punk Sound
I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.
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Before Groove Making Started Stuff
I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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Brands Eyeliner Heard
I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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Come Imagine Klutziness Rock Roller
That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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Expectations Impact Thinking

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.

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