Quotes from Billy Idol

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

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

Benjamin Franklin once offered advice to his fellow revolutionaries: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

always courting disaster to experience the biggest high. I'd been living the deranged life. I felt so nihilistic, yet why hadn't I just tuned in and dropped out? Instead, I followed Jim Morrison's credo, the credo of Coleridge and, at one point, Wordsworth, the credo of self-discovery through self-destruction I so willfully subscribed to until this moment:

The English poet Alexander Pope said, "An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

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

As the world continues to find new ways to tear itself apart, humans still love, hate, feel rejected and yarn to be close to someone.

THIS DREAM OF LIFE BEGAN with my first friends, my mum and my dad.

Sometimes you had to not give a fuck what others thought or you'd never do anything to advance yourself.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

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.

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