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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.
John Lydon
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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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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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I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.
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I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.
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Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.
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I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
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It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.
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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'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.
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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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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 love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.
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Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!
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I don't listen to music. I hate music.
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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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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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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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I've never said I'm a communist.
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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 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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