John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.
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I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
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I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.
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I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.
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Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.
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I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.
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Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.
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I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.
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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
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I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.
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I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va!
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When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.
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I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.
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I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her.
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Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
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Pop music I have always loved best.
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Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
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I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.
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I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.
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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!
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When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.
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Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.