We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
BILLY IDOLWe want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
BILLY IDOLI’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
BILLY IDOLThe 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 am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it…
BILLY IDOLSuch a human waste, your eyes without a face.
BILLY IDOLWhen the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
BILLY IDOLI 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.
BILLY IDOLWell there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
BILLY IDOLWalk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
BILLY IDOLI didn’t want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.
BILLY IDOLI don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
BILLY IDOLThey 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.’
BILLY IDOLI’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 IDOLWhen 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 IDOLI love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
BILLY IDOLI think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
BILLY IDOL