Quotes by John Lydon

If my leg falls off, Ill get a prosthetic. Thered be no deep sadness about. Id just get on with it! Its called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.

Its volatile, the marriage. Which one isnt? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

When you come from desperate poverty, and thats exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. Im not sure who gains from chaos, but I know its not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

These days young kids dont have any place to form an epic adventure. Its more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. Thats very hard on them. Theyre being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. Its so sad.

I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I dont even like listening to music in the car.

Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they dont care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called Order Of Death, and theyve really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. Thats living!

I dont have any expensive habits. Im not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But Id love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

I dont have huge bank accounts. Id love one. But it wouldnt change much. I dont have any expensive habits. Im not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But Id love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

Im not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. Ive had some serious, serious problems in my life. But Ive come out with a smile.

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldnt get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldnt have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. Theyve closed all the social centers. Theres not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.

Its a repressive society where you cant be horrible, Im not horrible, they made me horrible, Im just honest.

Freedom isnt to do what you want at somebody elses expense.

Im not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. Im not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

Listen, you know this: If theres not a rebellious youth culture, theres no culture at all. Its absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what were supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.