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" 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. "

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" You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on. "

John Lydon

Past

Religion

Music

" Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything. "

" Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. "

" It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards. "

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

" 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

" 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

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

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

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

" People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media. "

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

John Lydon

Free

Pets

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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! "

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

" 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

" Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name. "

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

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

" I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable. "

" 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

Will

Television

" 'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music. "

" 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. "

" I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! "

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

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