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" 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. "

John Lydon

Life

My Life

Busy

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John Lydon

You

Give

" My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. "

" 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. "

" I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that. "

" Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess. "

" The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. "

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

" 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

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

" I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.' "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out. "

John Lydon

Way

Find

" 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. "

" Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy. "

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

" 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

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

" I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. "