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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
Actor
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Record Producer
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Holloway
London
Johnny Rotten
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It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.
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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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Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.
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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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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 love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.
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Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!
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I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.
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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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I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.
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Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.
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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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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
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Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of it when it became a competition.
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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 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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Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.
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The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.
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I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.
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