Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation. "
John Lydon
Creation
Limits
God
Related Quotes:
" I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion. "
John Lydon
Love
Moment
Out
" There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them. "
John Lydon
Table
Sitting
Song
" You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound. "
John Lydon
Find
You
Sound
" I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. "
John Lydon
Fundamentalism
Wrong
Cannot
" I like America's diversity and its landscapes. "
John Lydon
Like
Landscapes
Diversity
" 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. "
John Lydon
Marriage
Better
Good
" 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
" 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. "
John Lydon
Place
Daily
Skill
" 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. "
John Lydon
Listen
New
Ideas
" I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world. "
John Lydon
World
Done
Fact
" 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. "
John Lydon
Positive
Deep
Life
" 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
" 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. "
John Lydon
Good
You
Relationship
" U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs. "
John Lydon
Experience
U2
Band
" Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman. "
John Lydon
You
Think
People
" Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living! "
John Lydon
Care
Death
Lunch
" For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. "
John Lydon
Passive
Surprisingly
Nation
" I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max. "
John Lydon
Live
Power
Resistance
" 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.' "
John Lydon
You
Nice
Say
" There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it. "
John Lydon
Nothing
Anyone
Dying
" 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. "
John Lydon
Mountains
Love
Have Fun
" I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space. "
John Lydon
Space
Respect
Religion
" I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit. "
John Lydon
You
True
Fear
" 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 this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile. "
John Lydon
Time
Life
Smile
" 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 find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her. "
John Lydon
Kind
Find
Lady
" People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media. "
John Lydon
People
Media
Allow
" I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable. "
John Lydon
Enjoyable
Release
Anything
" I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie. "
John Lydon
Sensible
Lie
Me