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“I’m thinking, we’re not going to have a war with these people. They can’t even get toilet paper right. We’re not going to fight with them.”

“I used to bang on the piano. My mom got sick of hearing me bang, and she dragged me down the street and I started taking lessons. And I took to it.”

Some people have branded this song as “anti-Catholic.” Billy Joel, on the other hand, describes it as “pro-lust.”

“I actually think about that when I’m onstage.  What would I like to see me do.  I tend to like the album tracks, not the hit singles.”

“Way back in the early ’70s, I used to do somersaults, flips off the piano,…anything to get attention.”