I always did view myself as one damn ugly fucker. I certainly weren't no belle of the ball. (...) Words are my weapons. Violence is something I'm not very good at. I don't think you can explain how things happen, other than sometimes they just should, and the Sex Pistols should have happened, and did.

I don't have any heroes. They're all useless. I mean, there's no bands around, is there? None. None that are accessible. I question everything, I always have done. If we were doing Shakespeare, a teacher would give me a hard time, and he wouldn't tell me what I wanted to know. I'd ask outright questions, and you're not supposed to do that. You're just supposed to accept: "It's Shakespeare. It's great, you're not." That's not good enough for me.