I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

Don't kill the golden goose.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.

What are the politics of boredom?

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

When you think you can, you will have the grace take action.

There are stranger things out there than flying pigs.

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

My general thing is, if you feel cute in your outfit, then your outfit is cute.

I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't want to deal with the unknown.

Guys warning girls not to fall in love with them is so truly douchey that it should have a higher success rate.

Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.

In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers