Billy Joel

Artists – musicians, painters, writers, poets – always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Billy Joel

Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.

Billy Joel

Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

Billy Joel

Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.

Billy Joel

Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.

Billy Joel

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

Billy Joel

Everyone is a hypocrite in one sense or another and I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

Billy Joel

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

Billy Joel

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Billy Joel

Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.

Billy Joel