Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
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… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's… — 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… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
What goes on in the world and who's defining what is right or wrong in anything? Is there a place in any… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to… — 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
