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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.’

Billy Idol

Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
BILLY IDOL

Blue Expression Walks
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
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
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’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
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’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
When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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Gun Men Needs
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
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
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
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.’
BILLY IDOL

Hair Money Play Rocks
I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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Able Exciting Thinking
We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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Flesh Sex 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

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