John Lydon Quotes

It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.

A healthy mind can live in an unhealthy body.

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

The only notes that matter come in a wad

The sounds of anger are not melodic.

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.

My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

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.

You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.

I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.

I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die.

Some of us are born big-minded with small penises. Others have big penises and small-minded.

This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.

Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.

Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.

I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.

The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of it when it became a competition.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

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 a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.

It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.

If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as Sting does from time to time.

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don’t take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That’s permanent. That’s true love.

There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.

I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.

I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.

I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now.

You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and boo-hiss everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.