If I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.
BILLY IDOLI 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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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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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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Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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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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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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Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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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 don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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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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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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