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" As a human being, I'm work in process. "
John Lydon
Process
Work
Human Being
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" 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. "
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" I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. "
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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 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. "
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" For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing. "
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" 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. "
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" All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own. "
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