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
mean roots culture
I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
catholic vindictive horrible
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
records release enjoyable
I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.
humans human-beings knows
I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.
song grief past
You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
car nonsense habit
I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.
mind balls nowhere-to-go
You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.
song stones rolling
There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.
dying rotten glorious
There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
suffering sides bed
You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.
wall leader political
The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
song mean ideas
Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!
book joy my-one-and-only
Books are like my one and only joy.
process humans human-beings
As a human being, I'm work in process.