John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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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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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 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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I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
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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 had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
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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 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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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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Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.
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Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
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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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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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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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There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.
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Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.