Billy Idol Quotes

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

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

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

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

We want flesh, flesh for fantasy. ~ Billy Idol

Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway. ~ Billy Idol

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

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

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

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

It's a nice day for a white wedding. ~ Billy Idol

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

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

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 . . . ~ Billy Idol

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

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

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

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

Such a human waste, your eyes without a face. ~ Billy Idol

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

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. ~ Billy Idol

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

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

I rocked the cradle of love. ~ Billy Idol

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

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. ~ Billy Idol

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

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

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

They told me that Billy would never come back any more, and I stared out of the window at the sun which came back, right enough, every day, and their news conveyed nothing whatever to me. ~ Kenneth Grahame

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built. ~ Billy Bragg

In Christ alone there is deliverance from man's tortured thoughts and freedom from the sordid habits which are destroying so many people. Why does the Bible so clearly denounce drunkenness? Because it is an enemy of human life. Anything that is against a person's welfare, God is against. ~ Billy Graham

Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll. ~ Billy Corgan

There are two masters, and you have to choose which master you are going to serve. ~ Billy Graham

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country. ~ Billy Graham

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing. ~ Billy Bob Thornton

These parents, they think I'm a role model for their kids, that their kids look at me as some sort of idol. But it's the parents' job to make sure their kids don't turn out that shallow. ~ Britney Spears

I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap. ~ Billy Joel

I wanted more than life could ever grant ~ Billy Corgan

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family? ~ Billy Graham

The influence of sin touches the innocent as well as the guilty. ~ Billy Graham

We can be convicted of sin - we can pray and confess our sin - we can repent - but the real test is our willingness to obey. ~ Billy Graham

Oh, that we would be people who would say, Our God will deliver us, but if not, we still refuse to worship the things of this world. ~ Billy Graham

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable. ~ Billy Graham

The secret of the power of Christianity is not in its ethics. It is not in Christian ideas or philosophy ... the secret of Christianity is found ... in the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Billy Graham

Smoke hung heavy in the air. Will's eyes stung. His throat.
His nose. And the crackling. God, the crackling fire was like the devil laughing.
Vera was in that house.
Mikey gripped his arm. "Hold on, Will - "
Will lunged forward. "Vera - "
"Whoa, Will." Mikey's grip tightened. "Stop."
"The hell I will. Vera - "
"Billy?" One of the cops approached him. Said a bunch of
words. Helped Mikey hold Will back.
Vera was in that house.
Vera, her trusty wooden body, her frets, her new strings. Vera,
who'd had his back everywhere from Pickleberry Springs to
Nashville to New York to LA, from seedy bars to stadiums.
Vera, who'd helped him write his first song. His last song.
Every song in between. ~ Jamie Farrell

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings. ~ Billy Graham

America has probably been the most successful experiment in history. The American Dream was a glorious attempt. It was built on a religious foundation. Its earliest concepts came from Holy Scripture. ~ Billy Graham

You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol. ~ William G. Boykin

To be ultra is to go beyond. It is to attack the sceptre in the name of the throne, and the mitre in the name of the attar; it is to ill-treat the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against. ~ Victor Hugo

Sex-centered magazines litter our newsstands ... each edition trying to escape new laws from the bottom of the sewers. We put lids on sewer holes. Ought we not to do something about the pornography which is spewing out a polluted river of filth which can destroy us faster than any chemical pollution we seem so worried about?7 ~ Billy Graham

..I began speaking.. First, I took issue with the media's characterization of the post-Katrina New Orleans as resembling the third world as its poor citizens clamored for a way out. I suggested that my experience in New Orleans working with the city's poorest people in the years before the storm had reflected the reality of third-world conditions in New Orleans, and that Katrina had not turned New Orleans into a third-world city but had only revealed it to the world as such. I explained that my work, running Reprieve, a charity that brought lawyers and volunteers to the Deep South from abroad to work on death penalty issues, had made it clear to me that much of the world had perceived this third-world reality, even if it was unnoticed by our own citizens.

To try answer Ryan's question, I attempted to use my own experience to explain that for many people in New Orleans, and in poor communities across the country, the government was merely an antagonist, a terrible landlord, a jailer, and a prosecutor. As a lawyer assigned to indigent people under sentence of death and paid with tax dollars, I explained the difficulty of working with clients who stand to be executed and who are provided my services by the state, not because they deserve them, but because the Constitution requires that certain appeals to be filed before these people can be killed. The state is providing my clients with my assistance, maybe the first real assistance they have ever received from the s ~ Billy Sothern

Christ taught that in the sight of God one soul is worth the entire materialistic world! In God's sight the individual is all-important. When Christ calls a man to follow Him, He calls him "out" from the "group." Christ can fill the vacuums. He can restore your personal identity. He can become the truth to your generation. ~ Billy Graham

Our lives are to be characterized by patience, for it is important in developing the mature, stable character which God wants to produce in His people. ~ Billy Graham

With Christ as your Savior and constant Companion, you, although alone, need never be lonely. ~ Billy Graham

You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation. ~ Billy Graham

I don't watch any films. Billy Elliot is the only film I've seen in the last 25 years. Oh, and ET. Both of which I loved! ~ Omar Sharif

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon. ~ Diane Sawyer

Whatever you love more than God is your idol. ~ Dwight L. Moody

Being a Christian does not exempt us from tough training, which may mean suffering. If the training were easy, we would not be prepared for the tough days ahead. ~ Billy Graham

I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs." ~ Billy Joel

One-third of Matthew ... one-third of Mark ... one-fourth of Luke, and one-half of John are given to [Christ's] death ... Jesus came for the express purpose of dying for sinners. When He left heaven, He knew He was going to the cross. ~ Billy Graham

Time, my brothers and sisters, seems to be running out; we are not yet tearing one another apart, but we are tearing apart our common home. Today, the scientific community realizes what the poor have long told us: harm, perhaps irreversible harm, is being done to the ecosystem. The earth, entire peoples and individual persons are being brutally punished. And behind all this pain, death and destruction there is the stench of what Basil of Caesarea called "the dung of the devil". An unfettered pursuit of money rules. The service of the common good is left behind. Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and, as we clearly see, it even puts at risk our common home. ~ Pope Francis

Repeated disappointment almost always triggers a series of other reactions: discouragement, anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment, even depression. Unless we learn to deal with disappointment, it will rob us of joy and poison our souls. ~ Billy Graham

In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path. ~ Billy Corgan

Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children. ~ Billy Graham

Life is not a matter of dollars and cents, houses and lands, earning capacity and financial achievement. Greed must not be allowed to make man the slave of wealth. ~ Billy Graham

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had. ~ Billy Bob Thornton