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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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Holloway
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Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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The way the music industry is now geared, it's fewer accolades towards new and upcoming acts. New bands offer bright creativity. It's a set format. A venue would rather hire a DJ than a band, and that's a problem.
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When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.
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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.
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I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.
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Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that.
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I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.
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The sounds of anger are not melodic.
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Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
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I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her.
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If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.
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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.
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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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You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
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I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.
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You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!
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I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.
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Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.
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I like America's diversity and its landscapes.
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People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
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Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!
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