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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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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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Fans Goes On World
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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Day One People Thinking
When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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Gun Men Needs
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
I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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Attitude Rocks Thinking
Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
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Dance Dancing Lose Nothing
I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
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Accent Gone Talking
We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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Flesh Sex Want
Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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Art People Rocks
Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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Eye Faces Waste
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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Dog Men Past
Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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Blue Expression Walks
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
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
Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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Dying Fighting Light
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

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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