A biography for Billy Squierhasn’t been written yet.
“I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.”
“I'm a huge garden and landscape fanatic.”
“I have a lot of gay friends.”
“British rock & roll became the gospel for American kids like me.”
“I was a good-looking, sexy guy. That certainly didn't hurt in promoting my music.”
“I always wanted to merge heavy metal with pop music, but I think that because I grew up more with pop, the Beatles and the Stones, I tended to affiliate myself with those projects.”
“I knew that I had done my best on 'Tell The Truth'... I was so proud of that record.”
“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.”
“For me, music is this incredibly cerebral trip. You turn on the radio or put on a record, and it's your song, it's what you see.”
“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.”
“Seeing a young band, seeing that hunger and the raw spontaneity, is good for me. It keeps me young, so to speak.”
“I try to keep the theatrics to a minimum and let the music do the talking.”
“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 don't try to be difficult. I just care so much about these albums that I get crazed sometimes when I'm making them.”
“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.'”
“I just stopped playing. I did some screenwriting and got into the nature thing. Music kind of went away.”
“I tend to deal with things in a very serious manner.”
“I don't really like fighting.”
“Studio work is very methodical, while live concerts must be very spontaneous.”
“There's a time that you realize that you're not gonna get out of a room without playing certain songs.”