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" 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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" The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. "

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Radio

" 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

Will

Television

" 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. "

" For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. "

" You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound. "

" Books are like my one and only joy. "

John Lydon

Books

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" I love a bit of flag-waving. "

" 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. "

" My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions. "

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You

" I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone. "

" 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. "

" I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun. "

" If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what. "

" I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them. "

John Lydon

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Love

" 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

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Want

" If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker. "

" 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. "

" I like America's diversity and its landscapes. "

John Lydon

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Diversity

" 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. "

" Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed. "

" I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. "

" 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

" 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. "

" There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners. "

" 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. "

" People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media. "

" Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. "

" Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything. "

" 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. "

" 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

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