108 Quotes by Billy Squier

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

I read one article that called me the 'latest pretender to the Led Zeppelin throne.'... If I saw the guy I'd knock him out. Because that's not true - I'm not pretending anything. If my records sell, it's because of me.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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 like. I've been making a real effort to try to find out what those forces are and get them out of my life.

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.