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 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.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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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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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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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 don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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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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I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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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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If I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.
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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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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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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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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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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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