Quotes About John Lydon

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.

I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.

Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

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

There have been conversations here in the United States about why every ex-President opens a library when politicians do not read the books. Hello, America! Kind of explains your politics. For me, reading saved me, it brought me back.