Billy Squier Quotes

Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.

'Shelby Star' is going great. We shot a music video, and I'm building an app and some other things for the project.

Did people's attitudes towards me change after I appeared on TV? Yeah, definitely. During my career I've had some flak - particularly doing television.

Fueled by Ramen was maybe the first company to see YouTube as a place where music videos would go. The music video, which could never quite find a place on TV, has found its final form on YouTube.

The song that's mostly changing my career or made the biggest impact on my career would be 'Catch Me Outside.' Mainly because it hit YouTube, and that was, like, my first-ever video, so people never really seen what I looked like or knew exactly what I was about, so that was, like, the first taste of what they got.

If you look at the 'Casi Nada' video, I'm, like, a good girl.

'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song.

When we were trying to come up with a concept for our music video for 'The Stage' we basically run through a lot of different ideas, and ultimately, I sat and studied the lyrics that Matt had written - and they really resonated with me.

When Scandal had a top 20 video, no one knew what I looked like. I had all this stuff on me.

I got scouted to be the dude in the video for 'Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored.'

You have to remember, videos were on the rise back when we did 'Take On Me.'

I quit the Knicks, so I know what quitting is. I did. I quit. And it's something I regret to this day. I live with it every day, and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision, and I quit.

As a music video director, I have about 4 billion hits on my music videos on YouTube, and I'm really proud of that.

Fans are invested in everything about you now. Back in the day, they just heard your record and saw your video.

I usually work in music videos, where we shoot, like, 10 to 12 setups and 60 shots or something.

If 'Emotions in Motion' comes out right, I can write the book on the formula rock star.

Not wearing hijab has seriously, seriously hurt my career. Mass media wants to see a woman in a veil. But I think it helps me because it makes it easier for my audience to relate to me. I'm not the scary 'other' they keep seeing on 'Fox News.'

With 'Family and Loyalty,' I didn't already have an idea for that video. So I called Fab Five Freddy. I wanted to get a director that I didn't have to explain Gang Starr to and he was with it.

As everyone in the world can see, I am not a rocker.

Grizzly Bear's 'Knife' is one of the best videos of all time - everything Encyclopedia Pictura has done is really incredible.

Shooting the music video for 'Party' on Thailand's Ko Samui Island was such a blast.

To get the best idea of who I am, I would probably say listen to my first single, 'The Way I Talk.'

I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors.

Nancy Reagan sort of downplayed that, you know - but she was quite successful. At the time she married Ronald Reagan, I think she was keenly aware that [Reagan's first wife] Jane Wyman's career had eclipsed Ronald Reagan's, so she was very determined not to have that happen.

The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.