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
kissing thinking should
You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.
hate thinking people
People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.
sex thinking challenges
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.
thinking rocks rock-n-roll
I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.
thinking bullets brag
I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.
thinking icons needs
I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.
sex thinking pistols
I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.
song thinking years
I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.
thinking facts done
I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.
thinking way assumption
My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.
mean thinking people
Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
grew liked members music taken
I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out.
died few four nearly took
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.
human
My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to.