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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.

Billy Idol

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.
BILLY IDOL

Day One People Thinking
We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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Flesh Sex 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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Adopting Ambition Real Rocks Something
Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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Blue Expression Walks
I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
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Accent Gone Talking
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
I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
BILLY IDOL

Attitude Rocks Thinking
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
Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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Dying Fighting Light
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 don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
BILLY IDOL

Care Idols Long
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
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.
BILLY IDOL

Cutting Encourage Eye Hair Long Parent Real
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
Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
BILLY IDOL

Dance Dancing Lose Nothing
Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
BILLY IDOL

Art People Rocks

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