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" I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie. "
John Lydon
Sensible
Lie
Me
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" A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation. "
John Lydon
Good
You
Relationship
" 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. "
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Better
Good
" For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing. "
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Playing
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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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Wife
Back
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" I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons. "
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Think
Something
General
" Every single lyric I've ever written I meant. "
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Every
Written
Single
" I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk. "
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People
Crazy
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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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Love
Adore
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" I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one. "
John Lydon
Great
Meeting
Perfect
" Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. "
John Lydon
Love Is
Love
Minutes
" I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. "
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Never
Thought
Band
" I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with. "
John Lydon
Proud
Funny
Country
" 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. "
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Love
Fast
Wife
" 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
" I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. "
John Lydon
Culture
Mean
Genuine
" I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. "
John Lydon
Fundamentalism
Wrong
Cannot
" Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be. "
John Lydon
Words
Far
More
" 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. "
John Lydon
Words
Staircase
Feelings
" I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians. "
John Lydon
Like
Left
Through
" I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine. "
John Lydon
Here
Mine
Your
" 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. "
John Lydon
Good
Car
Music
" I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. "
John Lydon
Hate
Death
You
" 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. "
John Lydon
Need
Us
Want
" It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either. "
John Lydon
Yourself
Good
Look
" I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max. "
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Live
Power
Resistance
" I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion. "
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Love
Moment
Out
" If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker. "
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Way
Better
Feel
" 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. "
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More
Trying
You
" There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it. "
John Lydon
Nothing
Anyone
Dying
" I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. "
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Easy
Song
Write