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

Billy Idol

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
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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Believe People Want
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
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
Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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Dying Fighting Light
I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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Attitude Rocks Thinking
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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Dog Men Past
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
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
Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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Art People Rocks
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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Greatest Hits Looking Rolling
I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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Able Exciting Thinking
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
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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Cutting Encourage Eye Hair Long Parent Real
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
Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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Blue Expression Walks
When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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Gun Men Needs
Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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Eye Faces Waste
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
I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
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Accent Gone Talking
I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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Care Idols Long
We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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Flesh Sex Want
Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
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Dance Dancing Lose Nothing
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
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

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