Quotes from John Lydon

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

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

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.

Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a never-ending process.

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.

Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost.

There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.

My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.

The sounds of anger are not melodic.

'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

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

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.

Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

As a human being, I'm work in process.

That's where money comes from, you work hard and you earn and then you spend it on correct things, and Public Image is a correct thing.

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.

The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.