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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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Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body… show your personality as much as possible.
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Attitude Body Personality
When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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Gun Men Needs
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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Hair Money Play Rocks
Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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Eye Faces Waste
If I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.
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Asks Chance Dancing
I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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Able Exciting Thinking
I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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Attitude Rocks Thinking
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

Adopting Ambition Real Rocks Something
We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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Flesh Sex Want
I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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Care Idols Long
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
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Love Mean Nice
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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Cutting Encourage Eye Hair Long Parent Real
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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Clothes Matter Money
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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Greatest Hits Looking Rolling
Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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Dying Fighting Light
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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Believe Earlier Music Quite Really

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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