John Lydon Quotes

I'm not some sort of puppet. Like, there isn't a team of people telling me what to do.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

No man should have another man's voice in his head.

There's people trying to tell me what to do, but I'm not like some marketing scam.

I'm not anybody's puppet.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

I don't really want to control anyone, to be honest.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Sometimes when you get out there and you want to just do your own thing, we have to reel that in.

I'm not here to be a puppet, if you will.

I'm not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I'm not going to live in somebody else's image.

For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.

I don't care what other people think. I hate conforming, that you have to wear this to a business meeting or that to a dinner. I've never worked that way.

Freedom to me can be so many things; freedom to be myself, to express myself and do the things I want to do, freedom to go in any direction I want to go in order to accomplish my goals.

Just do what you want more often. Don't be so worried about what other people expect.

I'm not a puppet in anyone's hands.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

I am a lot happier, focusing on the production side of things than wanting to be in front of the camera. If I am going to dance to someone else's tune, it might as well be my own.

We all have those friends that tick to their drum, and you don't want them to tick to anybody else's drum.

I wear what I want to wear and I do what I want to do and I think everyone should do that.

I play football; I do what I like.