My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.

I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

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.