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.
BILLY IDOLI don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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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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I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
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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 love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
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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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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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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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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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I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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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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I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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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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