Too fast to live, too young to die..

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immo….

What are the politics of boredom?.

I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a volu….

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..

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..

Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a….

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

I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. I….

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baud….

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..

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

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Fai….

Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented glo….

There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter.….

Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can….

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,….

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and….

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

I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful..