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" I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. "
John Lydon
Never
Thought
Band
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" I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form. "
John Lydon
Said
Sex
Music
" 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
" U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs. "
John Lydon
Experience
U2
Band
" Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a never-ending process. "
John Lydon
Again
Look
Over
" I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. "
John Lydon
Horrible
Irish
Nuns
" It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing. "
John Lydon
Thing
Nice
Joyous
" I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. "
John Lydon
Hate
Death
You
" I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars. "
John Lydon
Problem
Full
Internet
" I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep. "
John Lydon
Brain
Makes
People
" I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her. "
John Lydon
Kind
Find
Lady
" The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop. "
John Lydon
Contract
Companies
Nonsense
" 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. "
John Lydon
Way
Find
Me
" I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world. "
John Lydon
World
Done
Fact
" 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
" If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character. "
John Lydon
Church
Me
You
" 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. "
John Lydon
Man
People
Party
" I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons. "
John Lydon
Think
Something
General
" I've always despised the hippies. "
John Lydon
Despised
Always
Hippies
" 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
Good
You
Me
" 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. "
John Lydon
Thinking
Me
You
" 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
" I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician. "
John Lydon
Ears
Eyes
Up
" There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them. "
John Lydon
Table
Sitting
Song
" Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie! "
John Lydon
Disposition
Common Sense
Common
" I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! "
John Lydon
Wore
Jacket
Leather
" There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid. "
John Lydon
Just
Kid
Harm
" 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
Me
Will
Television
" 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
" I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. "
John Lydon
Stage
Wicked
Day
" I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you. "
John Lydon
Best
You
Never