I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document, you’re quite wrong. We remain as we always were, and that, alas, is one of life’s many nasty tricks.

Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

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.

Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.

I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.

In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.