“It's no accident that the Irish invented stream-of-consciousness literature. It was of absolute necessity. Poverty and the deprivation of their own language made this very important. Hence long-term memory, which is a Celtic thing.”
More from John Lydon
“Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.”
“Anger is an energy.”
“Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were…”
“If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right.”