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.

I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.

I think if it doesn't do what I say, if it doesn't do what I want, if it isn't politically subversive, if it isn't sexy, if it isn't stylish to make all that happen then it isn't truthfully worth listening to.

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

Too fast to live, too young to die.

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

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