I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
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More Billy Idol Quotes
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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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Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
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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 think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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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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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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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 think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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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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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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If I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.
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Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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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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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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