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Books are like my one and only joy.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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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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I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me. The British system itself and then of course all the illnesses that were challenging to me.
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For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
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Maybe I'm a prehistoric monster by being an individual. It's highly likely. All I offer to others is their own individuality. Grab it!
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I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.
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Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.
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I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.
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Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.
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For me, the anarchy movement is hilarious. It's all under .org, which is of course government sponsored websites, and then they're all wearing corporate clothing from the Dr.Martin's to the back sacks and the cell phones, they're all flying around on corporate jets and using corporate highways. Very anarchistic!
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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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Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
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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!
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I'm just permanently agitated by everything and everyone.
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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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You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and boo-hiss everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.
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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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I don't understand the art of compromise, and it's a shame the politicians don't understand that as well, you know, we might have a better, clearer world. But then saying that, we might also get a lot of Donald Trump's running left right and centre.
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I like America's diversity and its landscapes.
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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 never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
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