You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

I got into music by happenchance and luck and wearing a t-shirt with "I hate Pink Floyd" on it. The irony has never failed to amuse me ever since because I didn't hate Pink Floyd at all! And yet you have an entire range of people out there believing that the best thing you can do in life is to hate Pink Floyd. Come on, It's because it's the world I live in!

That's where money comes from, you work hard and you earn and then you spend it on correct things, and Public Image is a correct thing.

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole