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" Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place. "
John Lydon
Island
Place
Better
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" If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character. "
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You
" 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. "
John Lydon
Love
Fast
Wife
" 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. "
John Lydon
Live
Color
Born
" I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form. "
John Lydon
Said
Sex
Music
" I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all. "
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Love
Habits
Reason
" It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing. "
John Lydon
Thing
Nice
Joyous
" Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy. "
John Lydon
Just
Man
Heaven
" Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that. "
John Lydon
Universe
Music
Listening
" The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute. "
John Lydon
Genius
Political
Good
" I like America's diversity and its landscapes. "
John Lydon
Like
Landscapes
Diversity
" There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid. "
John Lydon
Just
Kid
Harm
" Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness. "
John Lydon
Life
My Life
Busy
" Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on. "
John Lydon
Then
Good
Myself
" It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards. "
John Lydon
Marriage
Better
Good
" I've never said I'm a communist. "
John Lydon
Never
Communist
Said
" I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all. "
John Lydon
Change
Love
Habits
" Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. "
John Lydon
Life
Humanity
Some
" It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. "
John Lydon
Horrible
Me
Society
" 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. "
John Lydon
You
Mind
Youth
" There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it. "
John Lydon
Nothing
Anyone
Dying
" When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution. "
John Lydon
Chaos
Politics
Poverty
" I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right. "
John Lydon
Like
Right
Say
" Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative. "
John Lydon
Boring
You
Society
" 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. "
John Lydon
Christmas
Young
Face
" When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I was very ill as a child and in and out of hospital. That sort of alienates you, and in my songs I put that to good use. "
John Lydon
Good
You
Me
" When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things. "
John Lydon
Trying
Always
Brain
" 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. "
John Lydon
Me
Will
Television
" 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. "
John Lydon
Want
Desert
Island
" Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed. "
John Lydon
Always
Important
Rules
" If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you. "
John Lydon
Me
You
Give