John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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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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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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Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.
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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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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've never said I'm a communist.
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If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
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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.
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I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.
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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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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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I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.
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I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.
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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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I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
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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 helped launch 49 careers - those that have been in PiL. To me, they are my babies; whatever they get up to, they know I love them. They've been living in my pockets, and they should show more gratitude.
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One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.
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I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.
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My words are my bullets.
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I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
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I love a bit of flag-waving.
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Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.
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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.