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" 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
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" People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true. "
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Royal
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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. "
John Lydon
Love
Fast
Wife
" 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. "
John Lydon
Place
Daily
Skill
" As a human being, I'm work in process. "
John Lydon
Process
Work
Human Being
" You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound. "
John Lydon
Find
You
Sound
" 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
" I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though. "
John Lydon
Falling
Mirror
Wrinkles
" 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
" 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 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. "
John Lydon
Mountains
Love
Have Fun
" 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. "
John Lydon
Always
Way
Done
" I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. "
John Lydon
Horrible
Irish
Nuns
" My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself. "
John Lydon
Biggest
Fear
Myself
" 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
Like
Right
Say
" I love a bit of flag-waving. "
John Lydon
Love
I Love
Bit
" Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you. "
John Lydon
More
Trying
You
" For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing. "
John Lydon
Me
Playing
Rock
" Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here! "
John Lydon
Ideas
Discipline
You
" Live music is healthy. "
John Lydon
Music
Live Music
Live
" There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners. "
John Lydon
Some
Stones
Just
" The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop. "
John Lydon
Contract
Companies
Nonsense
" Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. "
John Lydon
Christmas
Young
Face
" Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music. "
John Lydon
Love
Adore
Happens
" I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion. "
John Lydon
Love
Moment
Out
" Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. "
John Lydon
Life
Humanity
Some
" Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed. "
John Lydon
Always
Important
Rules
" I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world. "
John Lydon
World
Done
Fact
" 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
" 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'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. "
John Lydon
Want
Desert
Island