Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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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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Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
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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.
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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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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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When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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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 don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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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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If I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.
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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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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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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.
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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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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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