If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

There is no problem only solutions

A working class hero is something to be.