I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
BILLY IDOLI’m not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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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 don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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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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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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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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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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I didn’t want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.
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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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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 love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
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I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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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 not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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