| John Lydon - Q Magazine, June 2002 continued...(page 3) Why the rag & bone cart crap at last years Q Awards? We all know you enjoy capitalist trappings like your poncey house in Fulham. Gary Charlton, via E-Mail Fulham is poncey, is it? Thats a nice assumption. Just go away. People like you are just vindictive and dumb. And I don't need any judgements on my private life. What I present in public, deal with) doesn't give me his life to rip apart quite so happily. I live where I live cos I want to. Any money I have, I've bloody well earned. Every single word in every single song is honest. Now fucking pay me. And I hardly think my lifestyle is ostentatious anyway, and even if it was, it ain't your business. I've got news for you - when you come from shit, you want to get the fuck out of it. Did you shag either a) Siouxsie Sioux, b) Chrissie Hynde, or c) Jordan (infamous punk sceneste, not the page three model) If yes which one? Paul Smith, Warrington This is one boy who doesn't kiss and tell. Understand that I understand the word respect. And I respect other people as much as they should respect me. And asking me to trivialise other human beings for your titillation is fucking offensive. Did you stop going out after you began getting attacked so regularly in 1977? Joe Beeker, London No, nothing stops me doing anything. I've got news for you matey - when I first dyed my hair green at 15, that weren't no joyride. I had to earn my wings to get some kind of punk thing going and the rest came in like it was fucking hairdresser's convention. But they didn't go through those punishing early years, so why on earth would anything bother me after that? Everythings a stuggle, you get on with it. Are you a physical coward? When was your last good tear up? John Wilkenson, Omagh I don't fight, there's no point, and I'm certainly no coward. I'll stand till I drop, cos I'm to lazy to run. I mean what I say and if you're going to try and stop that, you're going to get a problem. And it'll be a bad one, so leave well alone, cos I leave you alone. And it's none of your business when I last threw a punch. You think I'm gonna walk myself into a lawsuit? As a godfather of punk, do you reckon that So Solid Crew are the real punks of 2002? Sarah Marsh, Gloucester I'm not a fucking godfather of punk...get that out of my life, a cliche like that. Do I walk around with Daily Mirror tattooed on my forehead? So Solid Crew? Oh please, thats just ludicrous. They are what they are. Does everybody desperately need to be a punk? I mean, c'mon on down, we're giving away punk wannabe kits at an alarming rate. The more the merrier. Ian Dury accused you of ripping off his act and pretending to be disabled. How did you feel about that? Robin Beechwood, Barnet Well, he was dying at the time, wasn't he? So I thought, Alright mate, if you need to go to the grave with my blessing, you've just fucked that one up. It's very sad. Ian Dury is someone that really matters to me and it's very, very sad that in his last dying days , he needed to desperately find something to give himself a sense of self esteem...and it be me. I must be doing something right. When was the last time you spoke to Malcolm McLaren? And what was said? Jim Easter, Dublin Thats none of your fucking business. Please. If theres gonna be anypublic disclosures they're not forthcoming. I heard you used to sell speed to Lemmy from Motorhead outside The Rainbow in Finsbury Park. Is this true? Maggie Boswell, Newport Lemmy has been saying so? Well, poor Lemmy, I mean, how would he remember? Lemmys a good mate of mine. I didn't charge that much either. When your fucking poor, you've gotta make a bob or two. Is the phlemgy chest getting any better? Marcus Granber, Oxford Well, this is from the meningitis. Thats permanently affected my sinuses and it's just something I live with...and severe headaches from time to time. But thats pressure and stress, which don't help much. I'll never be what you'd call fit. How do you feel now about the Pistols song Belsen Was A Gas? Paul Unwins, Margate It's so extreme in its viewpoint as to be ludicrous. It takes Nazism to its ultimate possibility - absurdity. It's a put down of racism, so I'm proud of it. If you want to destroy the potency of a swastika, wear one. Is there any part of the Pistols career you look back and cringe on? Pete Mella, Sheffield I don't cringe about anything I've done. I've lived the life. I walk the walk and talk the talk. Theres no shame in that. Does putting on the cartoon punk rocker act never get a bit tiring, John? Sean Corrigan, Dundee Hardly, because I haven't done it yet. I'll let you know once I start. (The beginning intro was slightly edited due to space constrictions.) |