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" I like America's diversity and its landscapes. "
John Lydon
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Landscapes
Diversity
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" 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. "
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" I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars. "
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" You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things. "
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" There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid. "
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" I love America. I love Americans. "
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" Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. "
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" Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything. "
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" Pop music I have always loved best. "
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" U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs. "
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" 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. "
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" I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party. "
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" I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling. "
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" Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together. "
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Never
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Punk
" I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that. "
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" I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests. "
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Business
" I've never said I'm a communist. "
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Never
Communist
Said
" The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop. "
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Contract
Companies
Nonsense
" 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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" I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash. "
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" 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. "
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Politics
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" I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. "
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Stage
Wicked
Day
" If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible. "
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Left
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" I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can. "
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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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" There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it. "
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Anyone
Dying
" It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. "
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Society
" You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on. "
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" There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners. "
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" I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. "
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" Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated. "
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