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I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.

Billy Idol

I didn’t want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.
BILLY IDOL

Believe People Want
Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
BILLY IDOL

Blue Expression Walks
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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Adopting Ambition Real Rocks Something
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.’
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Hair Money Play Rocks
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.
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Clothes Matter Money
We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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Flesh Sex Want
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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Believe Earlier Music Quite Really
When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
BILLY IDOL

Gun Men Needs
Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body… show your personality as much as possible.
BILLY IDOL

Attitude Body Personality
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
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
Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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Dying Fighting Light
I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
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Accent Gone Talking
I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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Attitude Rocks Thinking
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.
BILLY IDOL

Dark Demagogue Heart Sex
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

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