I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

What are the politics of boredom?

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.

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

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