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Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
Actor
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London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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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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I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.
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My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.
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It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.
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I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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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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When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole
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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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I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can dance to it, then that's all well and fine.
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I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.
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If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.
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Love is what you feel for a dog or a pussycat. It doesn't apply to humans.
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It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.
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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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Britain's an island it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.
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Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
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As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.
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There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.
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Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.
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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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