When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.