If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers... →
John Lydon
'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all... →
I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour... →
Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone... →
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.
Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.
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... →
I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming... →