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" We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist. "

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" I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep. "

" Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. "

" Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything. "

" The joy of life is in the work. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her. "

" 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. "

" I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician. "

" 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. "

" Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas. "

" 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 a bit of flag-waving. "

" 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. "

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

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

" For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing. "

" Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place. "

" My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good. "

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

" I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone. "

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

" My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together. "