Quotes from Billy Squier

For me, music is just one road. I dont have a specific pursuit; generally. I just try to be more aware of myself.

I don't have to forsake my career as a musician. I know how to write songs - that's not going to leave me. But I think it's good to explore some other avenues.

I'm happier in a garden.

I'm a huge garden and landscape fanatic.

I'd gone to New York at an early age, and I got beat up a little bit, emotionally. So I thought I'd go home and go to music school.

You can't just say, 'God help me,' and he's there. It takes a little bit more work on the part of the individual, I think.

There's this raw, basic quality people expect in my music.

British rock & roll became the gospel for American kids like me.

I have a great deal of respect for myself as a musician and a writer, even if I'm not doing it anymore.

When I was a kid, I was interested in folk music. But rock represented power, and I became the best rock guitarist in my school.

I think if you're going to a concert and spending $15 for a ticket for you and your girlfriend, then you're going to buy a T-shirt, and you end up spending close to $100 a night, what with gas in the car and anything else to get you in the spirit of things, I just think that people deserve their money's worth.

I don't feel any great need to dress in funny-looking clothes and be recognized as a star, nor do I get that much satisfaction out of hanging around all the main clubs so people can see who I am.

I got out of the business because I went from being the biggest artist on my record label to someone they didn't even want to have around.

Piper took me one step further in that it got my first real recording contract but the band just didn't quite mature. It didn't break things open, but it got me to the door.

Usually, when I'm having a good time, I don't think about it that much. I tend to become more reflective or introspective.

I was always regarded as being better than ninety percent of the kids in school, but I was also something of a loner.

I try to remember our relative insignificance on this planet and that these seemingly important things do not mean quite as much as we think they do.

I wouldn't want to end up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the 'Master of Hip-Hop Samples,' but you take what you can get.

I guess I could sit around and say, 'Gee, I wish I were playing at the Capital Centre tonight instead of Hammerjacks,' but it doesn't happen.

Your lips are my persuasion, your love will be my cure.

I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.

I don't sit around going, 'What is the matter with me? What do I have to do to get a hit?' And I don't also sit home and listen to my record every day and get drunk and go, 'Wow, this is great.'

It certainly is a positive thing... having a trademark.

I had great trouble believing in myself, so I didn't believe in my success - I didn't enjoy my success, which I thought was insane.