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I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.
John Joseph Lydon -
I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
John Joseph Lydon
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Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
John Joseph Lydon -
Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.
John Joseph Lydon -
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.
John Joseph Lydon -
Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
John Joseph Lydon -
For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
John Joseph Lydon -
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!
John Joseph Lydon
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If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.
John Joseph Lydon -
I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.
John Joseph Lydon -
There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
John Joseph Lydon -
I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
John Joseph Lydon -
Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.
John Joseph Lydon -
Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.
John Joseph Lydon
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I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.
John Joseph Lydon -
It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
John Joseph Lydon -
When I first heard it, I thought that's extremely challenging, the vocal - it was almost hysterical, and it was so up there, the register, but it was absolutely fascinating. And I know at the time a lot of my friends couldn't bear it, they thought it was just 'too much' - but that's exactly what drew me in.
John Joseph Lydon -
There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid.
John Joseph Lydon -
The joy of life is in the work.
John Joseph Lydon -
I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.
John Joseph Lydon
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Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
John Joseph Lydon -
I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.
John Joseph Lydon -
I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.
John Joseph Lydon -
I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space.
John Joseph Lydon