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 IDOLI didn’t want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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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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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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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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Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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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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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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I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
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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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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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I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
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Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
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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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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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