It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.

Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

My words are my bullets.

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.

I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.

My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.