John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.
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Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.
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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 love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.
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It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist.
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I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
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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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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.
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There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid.
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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'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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Pop music I have always loved best.
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'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.
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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 have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.
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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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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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I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.
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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 was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.
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I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.
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Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.
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I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling.