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.

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.

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.

True Success adds value to others

Everything that you need to succeed has been given to you.

It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.

I want to offer the possibility that Jesus was truly, as he proclaimed, a savior. Not the savior, not the one and only Son of God. Rather Jesus embodied the highest level of enlightenment.

Security is something when you don't have any confidence and you want somebody to pay you when you don't do the job.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

How to make money from Facebook and Twitter: (1) Go to 'Account Settings' (2) Click 'Deactivate your account' (3) Go back to work!

As you walk, you simply walk. Don't go ahead, don't jump here and there. Mind always go ahead or lag behind. Remain with the moment.

To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a Man, that is, the female must act like a faggot.