Billy Idol Quotes

I was shaped by my mistakes.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

I think what happened is I learned my strengths, but more importantly, I learned to embrace my weaknesses.

I've never hidden away from mistakes or the good things as well.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.

It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.

I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.

I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.