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" I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw. "

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" It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either. "

John Lydon

Yourself

Good

Look

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

" Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense. "

" I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk. "

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

John Lydon

Playing

Rock

" 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. "

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

John Lydon

Ears

Eyes

" I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all. "

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

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

" We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist. "

John Lydon

Need

Want

" 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. "

" I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling. "

" There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it. "

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

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

" I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear. "

John Lydon

Heart

Great

" 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! "

" Books are like my one and only joy. "

John Lydon

Books

Joy

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun. "

" 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. "

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

" I love a bit of flag-waving. "

" 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

" People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other. "