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" I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. "
John Lydon
Easy
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Write
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" I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile. "
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Life
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" I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa. "
John Lydon
My Own
Trumpet
Own
" 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
" Live music is healthy. "
John Lydon
Music
Live Music
Live
" The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records. "
John Lydon
Ideas
Stop
Day
" 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
" 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. "
John Lydon
Positive
Deep
Life
" I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests. "
John Lydon
Roll
Interests
Business
" I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being. "
John Lydon
You
Human
Human Being
" For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. "
John Lydon
Passive
Surprisingly
Nation
" If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker. "
John Lydon
Way
Better
Feel
" Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly. "
John Lydon
Mental
Family
Royal
" 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. "
John Lydon
Space
Respect
Religion
" You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound. "
John Lydon
Find
You
Sound
" The joy of life is in the work. "
John Lydon
Work
Joy
Life
" 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. "
John Lydon
True Love
Commitment
True
" Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything. "
John Lydon
Best
Singer
World
" I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that. "
John Lydon
Best
You
People
" You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry! "
John Lydon
You
Beautiful
I Am
" 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
" Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything. "
John Lydon
Away
Human
Choices
" I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk. "
John Lydon
People
Crazy
Crazy People
" One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army. "
John Lydon
Education
Beautiful
Things
" If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away. "
John Lydon
Attention
Opportunity
Say
" Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together. "
John Lydon
Never
Imagery
Punk
" I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. "
John Lydon
Never
Thought
Band
" 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. "
John Lydon
Chaos
Politics
Poverty
" 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. "
John Lydon
Great
Life
Sex
" I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all. "
John Lydon
Love
Habits
Reason