You have to win through whatever life presents you because the only thing you’re given in life is life itself. In life, I don’t endure self-pity, and I don’t like it in others. It was a punishing regime to go through at the time, but in the end it was a reward.
To my mind, recovering from spinal meningitis between ages seven and eleven made me what I am today. I lost my memory and spent so long recovering who I was and finding my personality that I think it set me up really well for the future.
That goes back to surviving a childhood illness that almost killed me. Well, I have amazing defensive strategies. It sets me up well with the world.Įven back in the early Sex Pistols interviews you gave as a very young man, you seemed to have a media savvy that most 20 to 21-year olds don’t have. Now it’s more like really good conversations with people, and I learn as much from them as they do from me. But those days are gone, and by sheer endurance I’ve worn all that out. It was usually resentful intelligentsia trying to tear me down. The British being what they are, I had to get over a few things when I started. How do you feel about the process at this point? NOISEY: You’ve been doing interviews for nearly 40 years now. These days he’ll hurl his best epithets from sunny California, because Johnny Rotten is now a U.S.
As such, the artist formerly known as Johnny Rotten isn’t quite the angry young man who hoisted two upright fingers in the Queen’s direction back in 1977. Then again, you might be surprised: A quarter-century of living in America and untold decades of listening to reggae can change a person irreversibly. extravaganza, entitled fill-in-the-blank style as What the World Needs Now… Famed torch singer Jackie DeShannon would clearly replace the ellipses with “is love” as she did on her soapy 1965 hit, but it seems unlikely that the former Sex Pistol is leaning toward anything quite so maudlin. I did.” The record he’s talking about is the latest Public Image Ltd. Why didn’t I put them on the record? Oh, hello. Lydon belches loudly and says, “Jazz tones. We’re poolside, of course-or at least at a picnic table on a sun deck overlooking a pool. John Lydon is alternately sipping a beer and huffing a duke at an undisclosed location in Malibu.
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