Johnny Rotten Quotes

#1. The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

Henry Rollins

#2. When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names ... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll ... something that acknowledged my ambition.

Billy Idol

#3. I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

Gavin Rossdale

#4. Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.

Brian Johnson

#5. Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

Henry Rollins

#6. Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers.

Penelope Spheeris

#7. I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.

Eric Clapton

#8. A good ten years before the fact, Dylan was already out-punking Johnny Rotten.

Mark Polizzotti

#9. Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

Kathleen Hanna

#10. Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

Captain Beefheart

#11. I wonder what became of you, your Johnny
Rotten skin, no Emerald City eyes.
You'd have been a beauty if you let inferiority
steam your glasses with its candor, sans laughter.

Kristen Henderson

#12. No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

Victor Hugo

#13. The way of the truthful-by-nature is as a bicycle race in a pair of sandpaper underpants, but William clung to an indisputable fact.

Terry Pratchett

#14. I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.

Johnny Carson

#15. You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

Julio Iglesias

#16. The problem carbon is that everyone thinks we have an energy problem, we don't. We have plenty of energy. We have a carbon problem. Carbon is a material, so we have a material problem, not an energy problem.

William McDonough

#17. Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

Jane Yolen