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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.

Billy Idol

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body… show your personality as much as possible.
BILLY IDOL

Attitude Body Personality
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.’
BILLY IDOL

Hair Money Play Rocks
I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
BILLY IDOL

Attitude Rocks Thinking
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.
BILLY IDOL

Fans Goes On World
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.
BILLY IDOL

Greatest Hits Looking Rolling
I’m not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces.
BILLY IDOL

Dog Men Past
If I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.
BILLY IDOL

Asks Chance Dancing
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
BILLY IDOL

Love Mean Nice
We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
BILLY IDOL

Flesh Sex Want
Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
BILLY IDOL

Dance Dancing Lose Nothing
I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
BILLY IDOL

Accent Gone Talking
I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it…
BILLY IDOL

Believe Earlier Music Quite Really
I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
BILLY IDOL

Care Idols Long
Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
BILLY IDOL

Art People Rocks
When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
BILLY IDOL

Gun Men Needs
I didn’t want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.
BILLY IDOL

Believe People Want

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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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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