I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.

He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'.

Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money