I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

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

Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.

I could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user.

Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.