John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist.
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There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid.
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I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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Pop music I have always loved best.
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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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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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'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 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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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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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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I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.
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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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If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.
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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 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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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.