I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.
I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.
If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.
I could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user.
You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.
It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.
My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.
People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
What goes on in the world and who's defining what is right or wrong in anything? Is there a place in any of our existence where we need judgment any longer? But we should have empathy towards each other and break away from those categories that politics and religion keep throwing back at us.
I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.
I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.
Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.
Rock n' roll is over, don't you get it? It lasted 25 years and now gets wiped out. The Sex Pistols were the bullet in the brain. They were the last rock and roll band.
You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.
I have the integrity of a teenager and that's never going to be stolen from me. I'm the original virgin.
I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die.
As a human being, I'm work in process.
I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can dance to it, then that's all well and fine.
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.
I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.
I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.
I've always despised the hippies.
The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort.
