Quotes from Billy Squier

My parents are proud of me now. However, when I first became involved with rock music, they were afraid.

I just stopped playing. I did some screenwriting and got into the nature thing. Music kind of went away.

I started as a guitarist and couldn't find a decent singer, so I started providing my own vocals.

When a band retires or is In hiding, a void is created. The fans' need is still there.

I never try to create a different personality or anything like that. I'm not like David Bowie or somebody like that, who changes personas each year.

You might think you see a lucky man who made the grade.

Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.

When you're on stage playing, when I plug in a guitar and chord, I'm 16 years old again. I feel the same excitement. It's very overwhelming. It engulfs you.

That's a dangerous combination, serious and rock 'n' roll. But yeah, I'm pretty serious. I've been at this a long time, and it takes a certain amount of seriousness.

People say, 'When are you making this comeback?' I say, 'It's not a comeback, it's a record.' They say, 'Where have you been all these years?' I say, 'I've been making records.'

Basically, my life was music, and I was always consumed by it.

Music is cyclical, but I've never thought of the music I make as being so off the wall or left field that it wouldn't always have an audience that would relate to it.

But I don't let my bad feelings rule my life. I acknowledge them because I can't pretend they aren't there.

Life isn't that complicated on paper. It's made more complex by the day and age we live.

I'd always envisioned 'The Big Beat' leading off 'The Tale of the Tape' with the biggest drumbeat the rock world had ever heard. I knew I had something good... but I had no idea just how good.

I rise at the break of day, your smile sets me on my way.

Most of us, whether we like it or not, we grow up and start having a different view of what we've done and who we are and where we're going.

I would never dispute the fact that music is my greatest love.

I just started exploring the guitar and seeing where it would take me.

It's very important for me to try to get to the people. I'm not shy. It's nice to give the fans a little extra, to let them inside.

The whole British music scene of the mid-sixties had a pretty profound effect on me.

I was a good-looking, sexy guy. That certainly didn't hurt in promoting my music.

Music became so commercialized that I just didn't want anything to do with it. I renounced the industry before it became the fashionable thing to do.

I don't know if anyone necessarily looks at themselves and what they do as being terribly significant one way or another.