Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.
I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.
People wanted me to become this cliched Keith Richards, Iggy Pop character. I wasn't expected to marry a beautiful wife and have kids.
Alice Cooper's weirdnesses must really make the kids feel violent. These kids are like my sister, young people of 14 or so who've come to enjoy themselves. So you put things like that in front of them, and I don't think it's right.
I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.
People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
Bikers, in general, have just been so attractive to people. Photographers would follow them because there's this weird warrior gravitas that comes with it. The bikes are loud, they have tattoos, they have artwork that they all wear on their jackets.
Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish.
We're kind of like the Kurt Cobain of country music in a way.
It's so funny because you think you're attracted to this bad boy. They do whatever they want, but you don't really want that. You don't want someone who's out on a tour bus, sleeping around with different people and getting wasted.
I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.
People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.
I was in the top 10 rock n' roll artists - up there with Sid Vicious. I always had that edge.
I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.
Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.
