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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. "

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" 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 could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you. "

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

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

" Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas. "

" I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. "

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

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

" I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician. "

John Lydon

Ears

Eyes

" Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept. "

" All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own. "

John Lydon

You

Society

" 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. "

" I've always despised the hippies. "

" 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

You

" 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. "

" 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

Right

Say

" I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. "

" I've helped launch 49 careers - those that have been in PiL. To me, they are my babies; whatever they get up to, they know I love them. They've been living in my pockets, and they should show more gratitude. "

" I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car. "

" 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 love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them. "

John Lydon

Doing

Love

" 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. "

" For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing. "

John Lydon

Playing

Rock

" Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music. "

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

" Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left. "

" It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing. "

" Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on. "

" Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place. "

" Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman. "