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.
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.’
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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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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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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.
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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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I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
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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.’
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When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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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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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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If I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.
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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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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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I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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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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Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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