I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
BILLY IDOLI don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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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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I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
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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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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’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 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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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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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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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 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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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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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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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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