I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
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.
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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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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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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 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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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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I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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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 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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Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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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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When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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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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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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