I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
BILLY IDOLI don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
BILLY IDOLThe 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 IDOLWell there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
BILLY IDOLSuch a human waste, your eyes without a face.
BILLY IDOLI’m not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces.
BILLY IDOLThey 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 IDOLI am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it…
BILLY IDOLElvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
BILLY IDOLI think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
BILLY IDOLWhen the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
BILLY IDOLRock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
BILLY IDOLI 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 IDOLI’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
BILLY IDOLI’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.
BILLY IDOLWhen 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 IDOLIt 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