John Lydon Quotes - Page 6

The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.

It's an absurdity to just wish for a world of chaos without anything viable in its place. I'm loyal to my culture, my creed, the human race and my people and I don't want to see them all end up in a Mad Max movie.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.

Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.

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.

It's quite sad to see how many people I've known over that years that just die off, you know like wilted flowers. Well, there's something to be said for flowers in the dustbin.

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

We're Sex Pistols, we ain't fake.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs.

These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.

Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of it when it became a competition.

Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am.

I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.

Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.