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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
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
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
We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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Flesh Sex Want
Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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Dying Fighting Light
When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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Gun Men Needs
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
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
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
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 don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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Care Idols Long
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 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

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