Best Billy Idol Quotes & Sayings

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue. — Billy Corgan

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

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

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. — Billy Idol

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

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?' — Billy Idol

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've put it all down, every bit from the heart.
I'm going out on a limb here, so watch my back. — 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 love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad. — Billy Idol

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

Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater ... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.' And then they get here and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!' It's not just show up one day and do it. It's show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays. — Billy Porter

It's a nice day for a white wedding. — 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

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. — Billy Idol

I rocked the cradle of love. — Billy Idol

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

(I) just had to show there's life in the old dog yet. (You) don't have to go out and shoot me. — 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. — 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

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

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

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

Never be in thrall to anyone but your own wants and desires, because only you can make yourself happy. Fly your own flag, and be true to it. Your soul is the true captain. — Billy Idol

I like the way Billy Idol sings. Mommy turned me on to him. — Willow Smith

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

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 love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore. — Billy Idol