First singer Job Money Musician When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked. - Billy Joel
Opinion I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. - Billy Joel
Popular Music Time Being We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge. - Billy Joel
Writing Women Music Now I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women. - Billy Joel
Drinking I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking. - Billy Joel
I can't wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn't the first consideration. - Kelly Lynch
I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around. - Roland Joffe
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life. - Karen Allen