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Billy Idol
British
Musician
Born:
Nov 30
,
1955
Because
Love
Music
People
Punk
You
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I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.
Billy Idol
Love
Me
Be Nice
Nice
Someone
Insults
Anymore
Means
If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
Billy Idol
You
World
Dream
Allow
Move
Where
Your
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
Attitude
Music
You
Personality
Punk
Project
Possible
Through
Part
Much
Should
Body
Your
Show
Whole
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
Funny
Ambition
Everyone
Bit
Out
Seemed
Something
Adopting
More
Johnny
Names
Rock
Real
Nasty
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Wanted
Vicious
Acknowledged
Really
Rotten
Started
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
Music
Singing
Love Songs
Rap
Rap Music
Songs
Like
Singer
Up
Really
Grow
Grow Up
I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
Billy Idol
Attitude
Punk
Think
Punk Rock
Never
Because
Rock
Die
Dies
Really
Ever
I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
Billy Idol
Become
Not Talking
Gone
Accent
Talking
Off
American
American Accent
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
Eyes
Thought
Punk
Long
Parents
Hair
Be Real
Weirder
Least
Real
Were
Encouraged
Getting
Going
Just
Straight
Cut
Used
Thing
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
Music
Me
People
Believe
Had
Put
Because
Felt
Am
Denying
Person
Get
Quite
Want
Romantic
Really
Should
Hard
Earlier
Soft
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
Man
Dog
Hide
Looking
Past
Own
Wild
Our
Way
Bit
Like
Greatest
Am
Greatest Hits
Times
Trying
Hits
Roll
Rolling
Want
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
Money
Punk
Hair
Punk Rock
Records
Had
Advertising
Make
Because
Rock
Said
Sell
American
Any
Radio
Play
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