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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.
John Joseph Lydon -
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.
John Joseph Lydon
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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.
John Joseph Lydon -
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.
John Joseph Lydon -
You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
John Joseph Lydon -
Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.
John Joseph Lydon -
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.
John Joseph Lydon -
The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
John Joseph Lydon
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I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
John Joseph Lydon -
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.
John Joseph Lydon -
I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.
John Joseph Lydon -
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.
John Joseph Lydon -
Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
John Joseph Lydon -
I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.
John Joseph Lydon
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People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.
John Joseph Lydon -
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
John Joseph Lydon -
I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
John Joseph Lydon -
I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.
John Joseph Lydon -
I love America. I love Americans.
John Joseph Lydon -
I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.
John Joseph Lydon
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I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.
John Joseph Lydon -
Replying to the question of the presenter: 'where did the name 'Sex Pistols' come from, who thought this name up?' Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.
John Joseph Lydon -
If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.
John Joseph Lydon -
Pop music I have always loved best.
John Joseph Lydon