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Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
Actor
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Singer-Songwriter
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Holloway
London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.
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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.
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I'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.
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You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things.
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I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.
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You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and boo-hiss everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.
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I come from the school of do it yourself mate. Unfortunately over the years there's been quite a few of, Can you do it for us Johnny, so we can grab all your glory?.
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I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.
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Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.
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I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.
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I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.
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For me all governments are my enemies and I've never made any bones about it any other way other than directly, and I don't fly the left flag or the right flag, me, I'm common sense.
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Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
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It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.
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If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
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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 that and observed that and treated music with great respect accordingly.
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Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote no future for you! Don't let the irony be lost.
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For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing.
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I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.
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U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
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