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 IDOLWe want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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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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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 don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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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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Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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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 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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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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I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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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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I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
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