You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?

No matter what Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious do, they can't be more disgusting than The Rolling Stones are in an orgy of biting.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.