Billy Joel Quotes

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

I have a lot of fantasy.

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me.

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

I don't travel much; I just stay at home and imagine weird places.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

Everyone needs a fantasy.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.