John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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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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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 don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.
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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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My favourite album by her is The Dreaming, and I think she produced that one herself. That got a lot of criticism - but I loved it. It was overloaded with textures, and tones and all manner of things. It’s a record that I still can play to this day, and still hear new things.
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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 had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
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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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People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.
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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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My words are my bullets.
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I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.
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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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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.
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There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.
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Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.
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You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.
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Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
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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.
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Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.