Best 28 quotes of Billy Idol on MyQuotes

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

I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, I put it all down - I'm out on a limb here, so watch my back.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.

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?

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.

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

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.

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

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.

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.

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.'

Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.

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

We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.

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.

When the other man has none, you don't need a gun.

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