Billy Idol Quotations

Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 rocked the cradle of love.

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

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