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If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.
Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night!
Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am.
You don't write "God Save The Queen" because you hate the English race, you write a song like that because you love them; and you're fed up with them being mistreated.
The Filth and the Fury (2000)
The class system is there to remind you that you’re just a dirty oik because you came from that side of the tracks.
Interview with Los Angeles Times (2015)
England's a violent place. Too violent for me. That's why I prefer it here (the USA). For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. This place suits me and the wife.
Are you really going to hand over the White House to a real estate agent? [...] I want a wig just like that one.
Interview with Los Angeles Times (2015)
How can you ban language, words? How're words offensive? And why should I have to tolerate YOUR interpretation? I'm the one using the word. ASK me how I'm using it, don't TELL me. And if you don't like the way I'm using it, so what? It's my right. It's my freedom of expression. Without that, we're nothing but slaves. My language, now fuck off!!!
Would the king of punks be a cliché? Oh, no, vicar.
Interview with Los Angeles Times (2015)
I wanted them to see the gloriousness of the California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah desert. So every chance we got, we stopped the bus and just absorbed that dead heat beauty and that terrain.
Interview with Los Angeles Times (2015)
I’ve not done any of this for superstardom, quite the opposite. I threw away the rock star mantle. And for that, there’s resentment too: ‘How dare he, how dare he.’
Interview with Los Angeles Times (2015)
[Replying to the question of the presenter: "where did the name "Sex Pistols" come from, who thought this name up?"] Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.