I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas.


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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
BILLY JOEL
If I need a cause for celebrationOr a comfort I can use to ease my mindI rely on my imaginationAnd I...
BILLY JOEL
[Does Joel feel a particular resonance with any of this year's other nominees? Sure, he says -- Paul...
BILLY JOEL
Shades of grey wherever I goThe more I find out the less that I knowBlack and white is how it should...
BILLY JOEL
I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewh...
BILLY JOEL
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - The sinners are much more fun
BILLY JOEL
Don't go trying some new fashionDon't change the color of your hair. . . .I could not love you any b...
BILLY JOEL
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
BILLY JOEL
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing ch...
BILLY JOEL
The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark lik...
BILLY HERMAN
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other ...
BILLY GRAHAM
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
BILLY WILDER
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER
Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER
I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as ...
BILLY WILDER
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER
Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster ...
BILLY ECKSTINE
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and...
BILLY CORGAN
I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It&#...
BILLY COLLINS
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER
Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplatin...
BILLY CRYSTAL
The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...
BILLY GRAHAM
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM
If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
BILLY WILDER
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
BILLY SUNDAY
I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
BILLY WEST
The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be ...
BILLY ZANE
You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zepp...
BILLY CORGAN
A lot of great music got easily dismissed because the baby boomers threw their weight around and we ...
BILLY CORGAN
For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done alright.
BILLY CORGAN
The band is basically modeled upon what we call like a Beatles ideal, which is that the band is abou...
BILLY CORGAN
For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to b...
BILLY CORGAN
Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it u...
BILLY CORGAN
Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
BILLY CORGAN
I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
BILLY CORGAN
By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and lea...
BILLY CORGAN