John Lydon

"If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago."

"Joe Strummer, God bless him, he's gone and he shall be missed. But how dare he preach class war with an organisation like that . Living in a huge house in Holland Park. Every photo opportunity to be s…"

"My favourite album by her is The Dreaming, and I think she produced that one herself. That got a lot of criticism — but I loved it. It was overloaded with textures, and tones and all manner of things.…"

"You don't write "God Save The Queen" because you hate the English race, you write a song like that because you love them; and you're fed up with them being mistreated."

"Are you really going to hand over the White House to a real estate agent? I want a wig just like that one."

"I wanted them to see the gloriousness of the California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah desert. So every chance we got, we stopped the bus and just absorbed that dead heat beauty and that terrain."

"The class system is there to remind you that you’re just a dirty oik because you came from that side of the tracks."

"Would the king of punks be a cliché? Oh, no, vicar."