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

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.

What are the politics of boredom?

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

The more we connect with our Spiritual self, the uglier sin looks. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

Always do more than is required of you.

What lies lurk in kisses.

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

Civilization is not necessary before Christianity; do both together if you will, but you will find civilization follow Christianity more easily than Christianity follow civilization.