Billy Idol
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Yes.
It was like that.
How long were you on it?
I don't know.
A few years in a way, because...
You know, on and off.
You know, like I was trying to get off drugs and then I would have a sort of a, you know... A memory of how good they are?
Yes, and then, you know, I never went back to heroin after a certain point.
Definitely.
I had a motorcycle accident.
I was in hospital where they had one of those pain boxes, you know, and it was like a 12-minute lockout because otherwise I would have...
So I thought about that.
I thought, when will you ever be on something?
I was as high as a kite in that, you know, with my leg all fucked up, but I was as high as a kite in that hospital room, you know.
And I just thought, well, when are you ever really going to have stuff like that?
It's never as pure as that again, you know.
So I really said to myself, that's it, man.
You know, you've also, look, you've fucked your leg up, you know.
This is time to start.
So I did start sort of trying to ease off.