Billy Idol Quotes

When there's nothing left to lose, and nothing else to prove, I'll be dancing with myself

Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again.

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.

Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.

I rocked the cradle of love.

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.

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.

I had been living as if there were no tomorrow, and had nearly made that a reality.

We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body ... show your personality as much as possible.

Your empty eyes seem to pass me by and leave me dancing with myself.

Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he's always crying.

The punk credo was to stand up for your own beliefs and tastes, not bow down to yet another new set of rules. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, indeed.

I'm on a bus on a psychedelic trip reading murder books tryin' to stay hip.

You are going to be who you are. Might as well embrace it or forever be at the mercy of the human fears and trepidations of life that can devastate and drag us down.

Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.

It's a nice day for a white wedding.

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

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.'

I think everybody heard it wrong. When people were saying I was born again, it was actually that I've got back into porn again . . .

I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.

If I only had the chance, I'd ask one to dance, and I'd be dancing with myself.

You have to believe in yourself even when others don't, or you won't achieve anything.

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.

If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.

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.