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 IDOLI love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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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’m not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces.
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Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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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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I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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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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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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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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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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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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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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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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Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body… show your personality as much as possible.
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