Billy Joel Quotes

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about?

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

People will hear one thing and just run with it.

Probably about 90 percent of the things that you read that supposedly came out of my mouth in regards to the Motley guys, usually most of it is incorrect. At the end of the day, I have no ill will.

I don't mind being asked anything! Not at all. I tell you what is annoying, is when you say something and somebody writes something that's completely different to what you said, and you're like, 'well that's not nice, because that's not what happened.'

That is all that happened. Why did you hear something else?

I wasn't under the impersonation you meant me.

That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Things definitely got out of perspective.

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.

If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that.

I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'