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" 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. "

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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. "

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" My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself. "

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

" It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist. "

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" Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. "

" I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun all day long on the most excellent mountains. "

" Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy. "

" 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. "

" I've always despised the hippies. "

" I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit. "

" Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it. "

" No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways. "

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

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" I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right. "

John Lydon

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" Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. "

" If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions. "

" The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records. "

" I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate. "

" Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much. "

" 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. "

" Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments. "

" 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. "

" There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation. "

" Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly. "

" I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together. "

" 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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" Books are like my one and only joy. "

John Lydon

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop. "