John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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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 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 cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.
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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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Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.
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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.
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I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.
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I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.
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Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
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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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I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don't take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That's permanent. That's true love.
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A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.
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Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.
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I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va!
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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.
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Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.
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It's no more of that 12 bar ditty wavy hair in the breeze platform boots flap your flare nonsense. It's not a packaged image of third-rate idiots. It's not a pose. We just do our stuff. Hate it as it usually is, you know I was very shocked by the reviews of the last album. I believe none of them. They liked us for the wrong reasons, trendy reasons.
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All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.
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The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort.
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I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.
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Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.
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Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.
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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
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Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.