John Lydon

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.