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" I've never said I'm a communist. "
John Lydon
Never
Communist
Said
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" If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you. "
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Me
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" I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one. "
John Lydon
Great
Meeting
Perfect
" My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. "
John Lydon
Gets
Human
Inspiration
" You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then. "
John Lydon
Life
Grief
Know
" The joy of life is in the work. "
John Lydon
Work
Joy
Life
" I like America's diversity and its landscapes. "
John Lydon
Like
Landscapes
Diversity
" Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything. "
John Lydon
Away
Human
Choices
" The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records. "
John Lydon
Ideas
Stop
Day
" 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
Me
" You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry! "
John Lydon
You
Beautiful
I Am
" 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. "
John Lydon
Live
Color
Born
" I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! "
John Lydon
Wore
Jacket
Leather
" There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid. "
John Lydon
Just
Kid
Harm
" Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative. "
John Lydon
Boring
You
Society
" When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things. "
John Lydon
Trying
Always
Brain
" If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them. "
John Lydon
Autograph
Your
You
" Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. "
John Lydon
Life
Humanity
Some
" 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
" 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
Me
Heart
Great
" 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 cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. "
John Lydon
Fundamentalism
Wrong
Cannot
" 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. "
John Lydon
Understand
You
Twice
" 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
Me
" Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it. "
John Lydon
Rid
Order
Old
" I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk. "
John Lydon
People
Crazy
Crazy People
" Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place. "
John Lydon
Island
Place
Better
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
John Lydon
Feel
Wake Up
Values
" Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything. "
John Lydon
Best
Singer
World