You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
The country you're born in is where your passport comes from. No, not according to Donald Trump! No, not at all. I… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living! — John Lydon Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
