Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.

Too fast to live, too young to die.

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.