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

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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I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.
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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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I'm just permanently agitated by everything and everyone.
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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.
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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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I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.
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You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.
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For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
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I like America's diversity and its landscapes.
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I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.
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The sounds of anger are not melodic.
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I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
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If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.
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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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Books are like my one and only joy.
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Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.
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I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.
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It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.
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For me, I'll always stand up for the disenfranchised, and I'm going to make a big point of that. I'm not a protest singer as such, you know? After the endurance course of the early 70s and 60s, I don't want to become one of them twats. But you got to learn to speak the truth.
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