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" You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd. "
John Lydon
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Brush
Pink
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" '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. "
John Lydon
Music
Place
American
" I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling. "
John Lydon
Feel
Wake Up
Values
" When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I was very ill as a child and in and out of hospital. That sort of alienates you, and in my songs I put that to good use. "
John Lydon
Good
You
Me
" 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
" Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that. "
John Lydon
Universe
Music
Listening
" 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. "
John Lydon
Understand
You
Twice
" I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you. "
John Lydon
Best
You
Never
" I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel. "
John Lydon
Great
Proud
School
" I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! "
John Lydon
Wore
Jacket
Leather
" 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. "
John Lydon
Name
Family
Strange
" 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
" Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense. "
John Lydon
Else
Freedom
You
" I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. "
John Lydon
Hate
Death
You
" I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that. "
John Lydon
Best
You
People
" It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist. "
John Lydon
Quite
Me
Clear
" 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
" 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
" I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together. "
John Lydon
Together
Takes
Record
" 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 here for your amusement. You're here for mine. "
John Lydon
Here
Mine
Your
" It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing. "
John Lydon
Thing
Nice
Joyous
" I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. "
John Lydon
Never
Thought
Band
" I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash. "
John Lydon
You
Put
Dog
" 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. "
John Lydon
Love
Habits
Reason
" 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. "
John Lydon
Thinking
Me
You
" 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. "
John Lydon
Falling
Mirror
Wrinkles
" 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 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
" Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. "
John Lydon
State
Childish
Innocence
" Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated. "
John Lydon
Democracy
Country
Understand