I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
It's quite sad to see how many people I've known over that years that just die off, you know like wilted flowers.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I will always pay respect and homage to my early years, because that's what gave me the initial push to go on… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll is over, don't you get it? It lasted 25 years and now gets wiped out. The Sex Pistols were… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me.… — 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've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I come from the school of do it yourself mate. Unfortunately over the years there's been quite a few of, "Can you… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't… — 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
