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11th January 2023
12:43pm GMT
"What a fantastic opportunity these people have given me," he also told the programme.
“I wrote this song, I cried my eyes out writing it and recording it and for them to have appreciated it and put it forward like this.
"I mean my wife, when she sees this, it's going to melt her."
Lydon said he cares for Nora full time, stating: "She's absolutely alright. I mean, I don’t notice the changes because I am there 24/7.
"But occasionally, when people come over they comment: 'She's losing weight,' but that's obviously going to happen.
"She has bits of her memory, she can remember things say 20 years ago almost perfectly but can’t remember two minutes ago.
“It’s up and down, it's incredibly stressful, the physical aspects.
"But I love her so much, it's absolutely alright and to be able to write a song about that, remembering a really wonderful part of our lives, which was a holiday in Hawaii."
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When it was put to Lydon - whose mother was from Cork and father came from Galway - that representing Ireland at the Eurovision may not be very punk, he joked: "It's incredibly punk!"
He added: "That's the irony of it all. Life throws up the unexpected at you occasionally and here it is. Here I am representing Ireland.
"I spent 66 years pretending to have a London accent to the point where it's become like the dominant factor in me.
"Let’s face it, the English would never give me the opportunity, would they? Ungrateful sods that lot are.
"I guess they're stuck with Prince Harry but you lot got Johnny."
Asked how he plans to shake up Eurovision proceedings, Lydon admitted he had "no idea".
"Apparently, I have to do karaoke over a backing track, which is something I've never done in my life," he joked.
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