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" The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute. "

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" 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 don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests. "

" 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! "

" 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

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Boy

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

" I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are. "

" Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself. "

John Lydon

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Television

" 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. "

" I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though. "

" Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you. "

John Lydon

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You

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

" For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. "

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

" 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. "

" If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions. "

" I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky. "

John Lydon

Culture

Shopping

" I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free. "

John Lydon

Free

Pets

" I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion. "

" 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. "

" People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true. "

" No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways. "

" The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records. "

" Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character. "

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