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I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

Billy Idol

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
I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
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Accent Gone Talking
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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Day One People Thinking
If I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.
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Asks Chance Dancing
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 think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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Able Exciting Thinking
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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Attitude Body Personality
Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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Eye Faces Waste
I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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Attitude Rocks Thinking
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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Clothes Matter Money
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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Hair Money Play Rocks
Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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Dying Fighting Light
Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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Art People Rocks
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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Dark Demagogue Heart Sex
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
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
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Love Mean Nice

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