I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
BILLY IDOLI don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
BILLY IDOLPart of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body… show your personality as much as possible.
BILLY IDOLThe 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.
BILLY IDOLI 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.
BILLY IDOLWhen the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
BILLY IDOLI’m not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces.
BILLY IDOLWalk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
BILLY IDOLI think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
BILLY IDOLI’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
BILLY IDOLMy 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.
BILLY IDOLWe want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
BILLY IDOLIt 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.
BILLY IDOLWell there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
BILLY IDOLElvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
BILLY IDOLI’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.
BILLY IDOLI 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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