Billy Squier

I'm basically a nice guy.

— Billy Squier

I'm happier in a garden.

— Billy Squier

I have a lot of gay friends.

— Billy Squier

I'm a huge garden and landscape fanatic.

— Billy Squier

Becoming a Top Ten artist has surprised me.

— Billy Squier

I don't really like fighting.

— Billy Squier

Spread your ear pollution far and wide.

— Billy Squier

You just stroke me, stroke me.

— Billy Squier

It would be easier to be more mysterious, but I try to be accessible.

— Billy Squier

I'm the only person I know who's never had a regular job.

— Billy Squier

Lonely is the night when you find yourself alone.

— Billy Squier

Studio work is very methodical, while live concerts must be very spontaneous.

— Billy Squier

I was a mess... It's like 'Rock Me Tonite' is an MBA course on how a video can go really wrong.

— Billy Squier

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

— Billy Squier

I find the idea of doing what you do over and over again to be incredibly boring.

— Billy Squier

If 'Emotions in Motion' comes out right, I can write the book on the formula rock star.

— Billy Squier

I take songwriting very seriously and I wouldn't want anything I do to be construed as frivolous or mundane.

— Billy Squier

Take 'The Stroke,' for instance. Plenty of people saw sexual connotations in that song but to me it was about what goes…

— Billy Squier

I got out of the business because I went from being the biggest artist on my record label to someone they didn't…

— Billy Squier

My music has been called heavy metal, but that's not an accurate description. I'd rather call it articulate rock because it expresses…

— Billy Squier

I'm the middle-class kid; it doesn't sound exciting, but a lot of my audience is middle-class kids.

— Billy Squier

I do keep my eyes and ears open but I don't spend a lot of time looking at what other people are…

— Billy Squier

I don't try to be difficult. I just care so much about these albums that I get crazed sometimes when I'm making…

— Billy Squier

Even in 1971, J. Geils was into the Stones. When I heard Geils, I realized that a lot of other people hearing…

— Billy Squier

I think if you're going to a concert and spending $15 for a ticket for you and your girlfriend, then you're going…

— Billy Squier

I heard that I was off traveling around the world skiing in Argentina and things like that. I may have had a…

— Billy Squier

I read one article that called me the 'latest pretender to the Led Zeppelin throne.'... If I saw the guy I'd knock…

— Billy Squier

Heavy metal to me implies a relentless, pounding, hitting-people-over-the-head music. Trend setters tend to dismiss it as basic and simple, but all…

— Billy Squier

I don't sit around going, 'What is the matter with me? What do I have to do to get a hit?' And…

— Billy Squier

I'd always envisioned 'The Big Beat' leading off 'The Tale of the Tape' with the biggest drumbeat the rock world had ever…

— Billy Squier

I'm older, wiser and richer, and I still have just as many headaches. It hasn't changed me drastically; certainly, not in terms…

— Billy Squier

We do things instinctively and not necessarily rationally. It's almost like we're being controlled by unseen forces, which is something I don't…

— Billy Squier

You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.

— Billy Squier

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

— Billy Squier

Consummate talent and relentless passion - The Truth ain't pretty...but it rocks like crazy!

— Billy Squier

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

— Billy Squier

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

— Billy Squier

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

— Billy Squier

I mean, I would always like to play bigger places and play for more people.

— Billy Squier

I tend to deal with things in a very serious manner.

— Billy Squier