List of Billy Childish Quotes

I Coined This Term 'freedom Thru Limitation' Back In The '90s Because I Was Sick Of Art Being Treated Like Pop, Because Of This Boring 'anything Can Be Art' Theory.

I've Always Liked New York, As I Like Towns With An Edge And New York Has A European Feel, So When I Came To Play Music Here In The '80s It Was A Surprise To Me.

When I Was Better Known Than Her, She Put My Name In That Tent. I Was Asked To Do Celebrity Big Brother, But Why Should I? We Live In An Age Where Fame Is Not Related To What You Do.

Bowie And Mccartney Arrived, And The Biscuits And Caviare Started And I Left Immediately. I Don't Like Shouting Across Rooms, With People In Shiny Suits Who Look Like Used-car Salesmen.

We Had The Same Kind Of Unemployment Here As They Had In The Worst Hit Places In The North And You're Meant To Be On A Cushy Wicket In The South. If You Go Up To Newcastle, You Can Tell That The Town's Really Had Money, Or Liverpool, You Know, The Northern Towns Have Got Grandeur, Whereas Medway, Being Just A Sort Of Garrison Town And Dockyard Town, You Don't Have Anything Like Earl Grey Square Or Anything Like That.

I'm Not Trying To Achieve Perfection. I Don't Like This Forced Control People Have Over Work.

I'm Going To Get A Pair Of Wire-snips, And I've Also Started A New Campaign To Have Blank Cds On Jukeboxes So You Can Play The Silence.

I Don't Spend A Lot Of Time Working If I Can Help It.

I Gave Up Drinking Lots Of Whiskey And Began To Practice Yoga And Meditation. As A Result I Am Not Dead.

I Make Sure I Make A Painting - That's My Job. And I Cook The Sunday Dinner.

Before 1999, Tracey Emin And Sarah Lucas Offered To Get Me Exhibitions, But Joining The Stuckists Put A Kaibosh On All That - Because I Wasn't Prepared To Be Controlled. I Agreed To Co-found The Stuckists To Be Allowed To Say What I Wanted, And I Left The Stuckists Because I Didn't Really Want To Be In Them In The First Place.

I've Not Been An Admirer Of Contemporary Music Since Punk Rock Went Off The Boil In 1977, But Once A Year I'll Listen To 'spiral Scratch' By The Buzzcocks, Or 'hippy Hippy Shake' By The Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I Can Put Up With Chopin Or Shakuhachi Flute In The Background.