When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.

When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.