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
leather-jackets leather jackets
I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va!
giving-up eye ears
I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.
communist said
I've never said I'm a communist.
giving ifs autographs
If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.
devices tempted ifs
If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
islands ebb-and-flow immigration
Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.
rotten middle left
Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.
liars lying unbearable
I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
ideas culture essentials
Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.
lazy way criminals
All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.
honest concepts hard
Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.
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.
school sharks white
I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.
mtv agency video
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.