John Joseph Lydon Quotes
-
You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.
-
'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.
-
Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.
-
No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.
-
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.
-
I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.
-
People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.
-
I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.
-
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.
-
I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.
-
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.
-
Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.
-
I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
-
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
-
As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.
-
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.
-
Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
-
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.