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" I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel. "

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" 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

" There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. "

" Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed. "

" Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness. "

" If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker. "

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

John Lydon

Experience

Band

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

" There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners. "

" Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating. "

" 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 don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max. "

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

John Lydon

Landscapes

Diversity

" I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! "

" There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid. "

" 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've always despised the hippies. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. "

" 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. "

" 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. "