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.
BILLY IDOLThey 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.’
More Billy Idol Quotes
-
-
Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body… show your personality as much as possible.
BILLY IDOL -
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.
BILLY IDOL -
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.
BILLY IDOL -
I didn’t want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.
BILLY IDOL -
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
BILLY IDOL -
Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
BILLY IDOL -
I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
BILLY IDOL -
We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
BILLY IDOL -
Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
BILLY IDOL -
I’m not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces.
BILLY IDOL -
When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
BILLY IDOL -
I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
BILLY IDOL -
Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
BILLY IDOL -
I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
BILLY IDOL -
I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
BILLY IDOL