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.
- Billy Idol
Roll, Acknowledged, Bit, Vicious
I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
- Billy Idol
American, Not Talking, Accent
My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?'
- Billy Idol
Rock And Roll, Reasons, Dad, Heel
I'm not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, 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 Idol
Own, Roll, Bit, Greatest Hits
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
Money, Still, Having, In The End
I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
- Billy Idol
Die, Think, Punk Rock, Dies
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 Idol
Thought, Cut, Weirder, Be Real
Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
- Billy Idol
Art, Rock, Ordinary, Ordinary People
I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... 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
Believe, Had, Put, Soft
It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge?
- Billy Idol
Always, Like, Been, Grunge
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
Lucky, Senses, I Think, I Came
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
Play, Records, Sell, Punk Rock
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.
- Billy Idol
Love, Means, I Love, Anymore
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
Through, Show, Part, Punk
I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.
- Billy Idol
Love, Grow, Rap, Grow Up
I rocked the cradle of love.
- Billy Idol
Love, Cradle
The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.
- Billy Idol
Stupid, About, Biggest, Misconception
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.
- Billy Idol
Change, Want, Goes, Changes
I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
- Billy Idol
Love, Think, I Think, Exciting
If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
- Billy Idol
World, Dream, Move, Allow
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