Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
From Billy Idol
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 think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.
I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.
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.
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.
Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.
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'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.
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