Best 196 quotes of John Lydon on MyQuotes

If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.

If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.

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.

If you really want the truth of anything, don't use Wikipedia.

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

I got into music by happenchance and luck and wearing a t-shirt with "I hate Pink Floyd" on it. The irony has never failed to amuse me ever since because I didn't hate Pink Floyd at all! And yet you have an entire range of people out there believing that the best thing you can do in life is to hate Pink Floyd. Come on, It's because it's the world I live in!

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

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

I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars.

I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.

I have the integrity of a teenager and that's never going to be stolen from me. I'm the original virgin.

I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space.

I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

I like America's diversity and its landscapes.

I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.

I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It’s a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you’ll be a happier individual. Atheism is as pointless as satanism.

I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun all day long on the most excellent mountains.

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.

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.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

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.

I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as Sting does from time to time.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

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.

I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.

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.

I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

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.

I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can dance to it, then that's all well and fine.

I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it.

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.

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don’t take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That’s permanent. That’s true love.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.

Isn't it odd I've made some friends in the Republican Party, but that's in spite of the fact that I cannot agree with not any one single thing they stand for. That's the irony in the joy of being a human being in that we don't resent each other for our different thought processes, but anything that offers the attitude to me of "I'm going to stop you because that offends my religion", then I'm going to stop them. So I have one more note against that ideology, and the idea of a real estate agent running the universe is just not acceptable.

I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

It's a loser's emblem (swastika), because the Nazis lost the war. It's ridiculous to suggest we are involved with fascists. All my best friends are black, gay, Irish or criminals.

It's an absurdity to just wish for a world of chaos without anything viable in its place. I'm loyal to my culture, my creed, the human race and my people and I don't want to see them all end up in a Mad Max movie.

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