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It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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I'm just permanently agitated by everything and everyone.
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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.
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Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.
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The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.
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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'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.
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What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because John said. I don't want to have to endure that kind of nonsense. I work for the art of the individual.
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I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.
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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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