Many of the punk bands are cop-outs and imitators and have made it easy for the likes of Green Peace...Green Day, who… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Don't try and tell me Green Day are punk. They're not, they're plonk and they're bandwagoning on something they didn't come up… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view,… — John Lydon Copy Share
I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it. — John Lydon Copy Share
All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and… — John Lydon Copy Share
Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living! — John Lydon Copy Share
I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! If I had had the money I wouldn't have spent it on shit like that. — John Lydon Copy Share
I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the next sixty… — John Lydon Copy Share
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… — John Lydon Copy Share
Destroy everything. That's all well and fine, but you got to offer something in it's place. Since I always have a point and purpose… — John Lydon Copy Share
For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've always known… — John Lydon Copy Share
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… — John Lydon Copy Share
I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun. — John Lydon Copy Share
