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

Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.

I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.