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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.
John Lydon
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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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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 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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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
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You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.
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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
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I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.
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I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.
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I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.
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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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I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am.
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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 don't listen to music. I hate music.
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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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I could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user.
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My words are my bullets.
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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 love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.
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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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If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.
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Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is.
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