I’ve created several musical trends, really. That’s not because I’m so far out and fabulous. It’s because most bands have no ideas of their own. They’re so desperate they’ll grab at any old straw. John Lydon Read Quote
Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps… That’s just another man’s fantasy. John Lydon Read Quote
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. John Lydon Read Quote
I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There’s nothing I’d ever buy, but I like being there. It’s wacky. John Lydon Read Quote
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. John Lydon Read Quote
It’s no good being nice and young and naive. There’s no good in that at all. You’ve got to do it all yourself, and you’ve gotta learn quick. And you can’t look for sympathy either. John Lydon Read Quote
All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal… wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own. John Lydon Read Quote
People don’t like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other. John Lydon Read Quote