Billy Idol

She was Irish and she came to England to become a nurse.

I would think so, yeah.

You know, my grandmother could play 14 instruments, not that I can, I'm not that musical.

14 instruments?

She could write music and she could play, yeah, I mean, a lot of it was the piano, the accordion, the viola, you know, she'd play a number of instruments.

She could write music, I think.

And although she wasn't doing much of that when I... Were you poor when you grew up?

We were okay.

I mean, Dad worked really hard, so... What did he do?

He was a salesman, really.

He sold different... He started off selling typewriters, then he sold medical equipment.

In what town is this?

Well, we actually came to America.

I lived in America when I was...

On Long Island when I was a child.

We came to America, I was about two and a half, and we stayed for about three years.

But you kept the accent.

Well, my first accent was American.

Well, my first accent was American.

My first memories are of Long Island and of having an American accent.