I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the next sixty are looking bright. You're dealing with human beings on the cutting edge, and there's bound to be tension. You have to be make room for that, and you can't be too unreasonable, because that's everybody else's role.
John LydonWhat 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!
John LydonPunk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
John LydonI love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.
John Lydon