You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG
I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
![Billie Joe Armstrong Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/we-do-have-american-idiot-picked-up-by-hbo-and-i-w.jpg)
![Billie Joe Armstrong Quote - When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/when-i-was-done-with-the-movie-ordinary-world-i-fe.jpg)
![Billie Joe Armstrong Quote - Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/madisyn-shipman-was-great-shes-a-really-talented-k-683x1024.jpg)
![Billie Joe Armstrong Quote - The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn’t really know where it was going to go.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/the-record-american-idiot-felt-special-to-us-when-.jpg)
