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" 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
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" I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine. "
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" I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car. "
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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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" You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd. "
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" There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid. "
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" I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way. "
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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 find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her. "
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" Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments. "
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Thing
" I love a bit of flag-waving. "
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" It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist. "
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Clear
" Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly. "
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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 could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you. "
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You
Never
" I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don't take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That's permanent. That's true love. "
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Commitment
True
" My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good. "
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Great
Life
Sex
" Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place. "
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Island
Place
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" I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right. "
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Right
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" I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am. "
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Prison
Joy
I Am
" I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. "
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Never
Thought
Band
" I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk. "
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People
Crazy
Crazy People
" I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out. "
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" You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental. "
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" There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them. "
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" We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist. "
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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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" Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name. "
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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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" Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better. "
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