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 IDOLI love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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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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I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
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Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, I put it all down – I’m out on a limb here, so watch my back.
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I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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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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I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it…
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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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I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
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I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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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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