Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
BILLY IDOLWalk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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 IDOLThere 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.
BILLY IDOLI didn’t want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.
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 IDOLI don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
BILLY IDOLWhen the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
BILLY IDOLSuch a human waste, your eyes without a face.
BILLY IDOLWe want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
BILLY IDOLI don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
BILLY IDOLWell there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
BILLY IDOLI think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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 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 IDOLElvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
BILLY IDOLRock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
BILLY IDOL