John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
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Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.
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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
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I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.
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I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.
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There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
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I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
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I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars.
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If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.
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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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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 went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am.
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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.
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There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.
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The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
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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.
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Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.
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You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.
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Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!
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If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
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Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.
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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.
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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.
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I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.