Billy Idol
Related One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the loca... IMELDA MAY MADONNA CICCONE I was fortunate enough to be there for Ernie, Billy and Ron, ... I was on the field for all those ce... RYNE SANDBERG TOM HOLLAND The last record was what I would sound like if I played in a rock band - and I don?t. So I wanted to... GLEN PHILLIPS When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy,... PIA TOSCANO I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried... FANTASIA BARRINO I'd call it an organic hip-hop style, musically. Back in the late '80s and early '90s, people sample... MIKE SHINODA BILLY CORGAN CRAIG GROESCHEL CARSON DALY TODD RUNDGREN We don't actually have Billy Idol in our show. But we do have what you might call a Billy Idol subst... CHAD BEGUELIN I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tel... SIMON COWELL I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took ... PUSHA T I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I GRAHAM GREENE JACK OSBOURNE MAYER HAWTHORNE For me, '52nd Street' is quintessential Billy Joel. I bought that record as a kid and listen... DARIUS RUCKER I had been working as a studio musician very intensely all through the 1970s, and I really never lef... FRED TACKETT This kind of situation is something most people don't expect, ... I know I didn't expect it back whe... DEL MCCOURY When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an... MISSY ELLIOTT CLIVE DAVIS Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I MITCH HEDBERG I told them no, because they were beat after having driven all the way from Columbus, and there was ... DWAINE KNIGHT FREDDIE MERCURY If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so l... ENRIQUE IGLESIAS The recruiters came and talked with us in school, and I remember it like yesterday. I wasn't interes... STEPHEN DAU BILLY IDOL DAVID ARCHULETA DON MCLEAN In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them per... TAYLOR HAWKINS I had a vision. Lisa and me were tearing a church apart. That's not what I did. I just tore up a tab... ADAM JOSEPH TURGEON PADMA LAKSHMI BRAD PAISLEY It got to the point where we doing so much touring and playing, and the money really wasn't coming i... FRANK WATKINS DAVID CROSBY I had an idea that it would just, I was going to do a four-record deal with Rounder. I was going to ... GEORGE THOROGOOD JAY-Z BEBE REXHA DAVID CROSBY We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound lik... BUZZ OSBORNE YUNA When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainst... LAUREN DAIGLE I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid. DARIUS RUCKER If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my so... JAMES IHA They called me into their office, they said their piece, I said my piece -- it was very professional... ALAN EMBREE MIKE BIRBIGLIA I'm pretty overwhelmed right now and a little bit sick along with it, ... We'll see how the day goes... RYNE SANDBERG GAVIN DEGRAW I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never reall... LAURA TROTT I think I assumed that most of them would want to write about their actual very favorite album. But ... DAVID BARKER JOHN MAYER When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me wan... MIGUEL ZENON I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for m... FLUME James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they wou... CHARLIE HADEN BRIAN ENO JOAN JETT TODD RUNDGREN I didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I alwa... CHRIS STAPLETON How much easier life was once you learned how to lie. I had gotten into trouble by speaking out of t... ZOë MARRIOTT STEPHEN COLBERT I didn't quite know he was going to turn into the teen idol he turned into. Back then, he had like a... A.J. PIERZYNSKI I got into Bob Marley, I got into reggae music. And that music just spoke to me and so it just becam... MATISYAHU MILLER RICKY MARTIN GRAHAM NASH TAYLOR SWIFT JESSE MCCARTNEY JAY ASHER Billy played well. He got into foul trouble in the second quarter. He got two fouls in the second so... LARRY HOGAN AMY GRANT I could have gone somewhere with singing if I had wanted to, but why go to 'American Idol' when you ... LAVESA GLOVER I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE LYLE LOVETT When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio... AGNES OBEL In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They sa... SIR MIX-A-LOT I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy U... AMIRI BARAKA Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the firs... ARMIN VAN BUUREN CHARLIE PUTH I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I wa... AFROJACK CHINUA ACHEBE STING HUNTER S. THOMPSON
More Billy Idol
BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL BILLY IDOL Some of the wires were rusted in two. DON IDOL This is a privately owned bridge by Lowe's Motor Speedway. They are responsible for maintenance and ... DON IDOL For corrosion, you need a combination of oxygen and moisture. At this point we do not know exactly h... DON IDOL BILLY CONNOLLY BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY SUNDAY BILLY WILDER BILLY JOEL BILLY CORGAN BILLY GRAHAM BILLY CONNOLLY BILLY CONNOLLY BILLY GRAHAM BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand... BILLY PORTER BILLY GIBBONS BILLY COLLINS BILLY BEANE I'm not a bro. BILLY EICHNER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY JOEL I'm on all the apps: Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, Scruff. I have no shame about that. BILLY EICHNER BILLY GRAHAM I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight ... BILLY PORTER BILLY GARDELL BILLY CONNOLLY BILLY MAYS Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice. BILLY BUSH It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instru... BILLY SHEEHAN BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY SUNDAY BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY GIBBONS BILLY GIBBONS BILLY COLLINS BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark lik... BILLY HERMAN BILLY GRAHAM BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster ... BILLY ECKSTINE BILLY CORGAN BILLY COLLINS BILLY WILDER BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY SUNDAY I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice. BILLY WEST BILLY ZANE BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY MAYS BILLY WILDER BILLY SUNDAY BILLY GRAHAM BILLY JOEL BILLY GIBBONS BILLY CORGAN BILLY JOEL BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY JOEL BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY COLLINS BILLY MARTIN BILLY CONNELLY BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY JOEL BILLY GRAHAM BILLY ZEOLI BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY JOEL BILLY ROSE BILLY JOEL BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY WILDER BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CORGAN BILLY JOEL BILLY CORGAN The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's grea... BILLY EVANS BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CONNOLLY BILLY CORGAN When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and fam... BILLY BALDWIN BILLY GRAHAM I had all kinds of allergy problems with certain meats, and with fruits and vegetables with pesticid... BILLY CASPER BILLY COLLINS BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft. BILLY MITCHELL BILLY GRAHAM BILLY CRUDUP
When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contr... 
When I was in 'Billy,' I always knew that I wanted to do something in performing. I always k... 
You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hu... 
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap wa... 
People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my ... 
I became aware that our love was doomed; love had turned into a love affair with a beginning and an ... 
I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show... 
I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a l... 
I had no idea that I was ever getting into music. I did not prepare for a music career, and here I&#... 
I had an apartment and I had a neighbor, and whenever he would knock on my wall I knew he wanted me ... 
Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way? 
I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was pr... 
Before 'American Idol' and all this stuff, I was obsessed with music charts, and I used to g... 
I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really... 
For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find somet... 
For this album, I was looking for songs that would be fun to play live. I was really focused on that... 
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - wer... 
My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a ... 
I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into th... 
I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. Whe... 
When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Phil... 
The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record. 
I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. 
I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a w... 
Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able... 
My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller... 
I met with great producers and composers, young people that wanted to give it all in their art, ... ... 
We just about finished mixing the record at my house in Hawaii, Crosby was there and Russell and Nat... 
A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were ... 
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... 
With everything going on in my life – going on in my head – I wanted to talk with you. Really ta... 
I choose to live in Nashville because my whole family is there. I couldn't re-engage with the ever-c... 
My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there we... 
When I wrote 'Marvin Gaye,' my whole intention was to make a record that people would put on... 
I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just kn... 
I think I've always had a sort of fantasy or dream that I would like to make a living playing music.... 
Ten years before --- even five --- I had been the same way. I wanted it all and I wanted it fast and... 
I love it when someone insults me. That means I don't have to be nice anymore. 
Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk. 
Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on. 
Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you ... 
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor... 
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him i... 
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you... 
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. 
I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you. 
Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying. 
There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter. 
The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I wa... 
Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and bro... 
Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ... 
The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period. 
The best director is the one you don't see. 
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have righ... 
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. B... 
Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear. 
Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy... 
Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for yo... 
We're seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids sho... 
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. 
I've seen worse. . . . It just so happens that your friend here is mostly dead. There's a big differ... 
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a ... 
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. 
The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be ... 
Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it u... 
Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game. 
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagi... 
God has a big eraser. 
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing. 
There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for tel... 