360 Quotes by John Lydon

My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.

Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham.

U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

My reputation is a media creation.

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

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.

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.