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When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names… Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn’t really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny – yet something that seemed real rock ‘n’ roll… something that acknowledged my ambition.

Billy Idol

It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end.
BILLY IDOL

Clothes Matter Money
I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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Able Exciting Thinking
Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body… show your personality as much as possible.
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Attitude Body Personality
Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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Art People Rocks
Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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Eye Faces Waste
I’m not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces.
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Dog Men Past
When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names… Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn’t really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny – yet something that seemed real rock ‘n’ roll… something that acknowledged my ambition.
BILLY IDOL

Adopting Ambition Real Rocks Something
Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
BILLY IDOL

Dance Dancing Lose Nothing
They wouldn’t play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, ‘Punk rock doesn’t sell advertising, it won’t make any money.’
BILLY IDOL

Hair Money Play Rocks
The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.
BILLY IDOL

Fans Goes On World
My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going ‘straight,’ but I was just getting weirder – at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.
BILLY IDOL

Cutting Encourage Eye Hair Long Parent Real
There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn’t help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don’t.
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Day One People Thinking
I’m rolling in the feces of my greatest hits – that’s a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times.
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Greatest Hits Looking Rolling
Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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Blue Expression Walks
We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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Flesh Sex Want
I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
BILLY IDOL

Care Idols Long

When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names… Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn’t really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny – yet something that seemed real rock ‘n’ roll… something that acknowledged my ambition.

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When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names… Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn’t really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny – yet something that seemed real rock ‘n’ roll… something that acknowledged my ambition.

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