John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
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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 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'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'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 hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
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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 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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I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va!
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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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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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I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.
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I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.
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No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.
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Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.
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People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.
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When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.
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Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
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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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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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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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People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
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Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.