John Lydon
John Lydon
John Joseph Lydon, also known by his former stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as the lead singer of the late 1970's punk band The Sex Pistols, which lasted from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. He is also the lead singer of post-punk band Public Image Ltd, which he founded and fronted from 1978 until 1993, and again since 2009...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth31 January 1956
inside keeps maintain people sort themselves ticking unhappy wake
I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling.
nice may-not-be-perfect people
It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.
hate thinking people
People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.
writing people competition
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.
sex silly people
What do you have to do to get people to take an interest? I'm not going to go out and cause a silly sex scandal just to sell a record!
liars lying people
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.
people ifs knows
If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right
book people emotion
I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.
people rotten blame
People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.
ipods people listening
Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that.
people soul records
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.
media people should
People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
calming-effect people may
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.
people use
I do use my music to entertain myself, as indeed I use other people's music.