John Lydon Quotes

Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit a...

My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, whic...

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, seri...

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm ...

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vici...

I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to he...

These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of th...

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all ou...

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...

Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for fi...

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not so...

Within a year or two, however, a couple of the first things I wrote – ‘Anarchy In The UK’ and ‘God S...

These were early days for me in the American culture, and so I wasn’t aware that when people are sho...

I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensi...

I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to ...

I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.

You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the ev...

I hate death it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses a...

I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmos...

If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's ab...

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people i...

If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with i...