John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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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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If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.
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Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
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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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Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!
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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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Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.
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I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars.
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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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Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a never-ending process.
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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 love a bit of flag-waving.
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I love America. I love Americans.
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It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
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You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.
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I've never said I'm a communist.
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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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I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun all day long on the most excellent mountains.
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I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.
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You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!
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I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.
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I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.
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You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.
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I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.