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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 went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am. "

John Lydon

Prison

Joy

I Am

" If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible. "

" 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. "

" U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs. "

John Lydon

Experience

Band

" I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. "

John Lydon

Horrible

Society

" I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd. "

John Lydon

Brush

Pink

" I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me. "

" As a human being, I'm work in process. "

" You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental. "

" 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

" 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

" I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being. "

" 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. "

" When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things. "

" I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back. "

John Lydon

Back

Boy

" 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

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

" The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort. "

" I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars. "

" 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. "

" I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash. "

" My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. "