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It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
Actor
Guitarist
Lyricist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Television Presenter
Holloway
London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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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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Only the fakes survive.
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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 always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.
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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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My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.
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This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.
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I'm just permanently agitated by everything and everyone.
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Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!
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Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.
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There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.
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I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.
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I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.
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I hate death it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
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I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.
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I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.
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'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.
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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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