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.
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.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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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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If I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.
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Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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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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I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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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 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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Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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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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I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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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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